appdev-projects/rails-7-template

rails-7-template's Issues

Do we want the git branch on the command line?

Would we like something like:

• current branch
• "dirty" marker

I find it to be nice personally, but maybe just distracting for students?

Thoughts @raghubetina @jelaniwoods?

Databases are set up in sqlite3 for development and test environments

[Preface: I come from the DPI SDF 2023-9.1 so I don't have the big picture vision to know if my feedback is good or not. In this course, the last lesson we have before we start our personal project is Photogram Industrial in which we use the gem devise and enable "citext" which I think is only available with Postgresql.]

/config/database.yml is using sqlite3

Would it be more consistent with the other lessons to use Postgresql instead, so "citext" is available from the start?

Remove firstdraft gems

@jelaniwoods Can we remove the firstdraft gems from the Gemfile, e.g. get rid of the github... from these lines:

gem "appdev_support", github: "firstdraft/appdev_support"

I actually just tried to do this, but when I bundled I got

Could not find gem 'appdev_support' in rubygems repository https://rubygems.org/ or installed
locally.

So maybe this change isn't quite ready yet?

Upgrade rails to ~> 7.1

I'm writing a lesson on async jobs using Solid Queue and Mission Control. Mission Control requires rails ~> 7.1. Soild Queue is really nice since it uses db tables instead of redis, which makes deployments simpler/cheaper. Also, you can run it on sqlite which means you can still use codespaces.

Any plans to upgrade the rails version?

Live Reload Gem

Hello, I think it would be nice to have a live reloader for erb, js and css files in the template. Here is the live reloader I use. Let me know if I can submit a pull request!