macksmind/opinionated-rails-generator

Generate Rails 6 app with opinionated choices

OpinionatedRailsGenerator

Generates a Rails 6 application with these choices:

• PostgreSQL database
• Bootstrap V5 front-end toolkit
• Devise authentication
• Pundit authorization
• Slim templating engine
• RSpec & Cucumber testing
• Bullet N+1 detection
• FactoryBot test data
• Kaminari pagination
• Ransack search
• MetaTags SEO
• Pry console
• Gravatar with fallback to LetterAvatar
• RuboCop & ESLint linters, with Prettier formatting
• Model annotation
• Code coverage
• Ready for cloud deploy at Heroku

Background

I used to have a Rails project whose sole purpose was to provide a jumping off point for other Rails projects. Regenerating pieces of it every time one of its dependencies changed was tedious, so I scripted building a new app and dropping in the pieces that don't come from generators.

Example Output

See OpinionatedRails

Contributing

In order to work on OpinionatedRailsGenerator you first need to fork and clone the repo. Please do any work on a dedicated branch and rebase against master before sending a pull request.

Usage

Generation

Usage: bin/generate.rb APP_PATH

Heroku Deploy

• Update db/seeds.rb with your preferred info and git commit the change
• Install Heroku CLI if you haven't already
• heroku create [APP]
• heroku addons:create sendgrid:starter
• heroku labs:enable runtime-dyno-metadata
• git push heroku master
• heroku rake db:fixtures:load db:seed
• heroku open