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November 18, 2009

Great .gitignore file(s) for your next Rails project

Here's great rails template snippet to set up .gitignore files throughout your whole Rails project.

It ignores unnecessary files in the root .gitignore, plus it ensures no vendor/ directories are checked into git. 

 
run "touch tmp/.gitignore log/.gitignore vendor/.gitignore" 
 
run %{find . -type d -empty | grep -v "vendor" | grep -v ".git" | grep -v "tmp" | xargs -I xxx touch xxx/.gitignore} 
 
file '.gitignore', <<-EOS.gsub(/^ /, '') 
.DS_Store 
log/*.log 
tmp/**/* 
config/database.yml 
config/initializers/site_keys.rb 
db/*.sqlite3 
EOS

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November 4, 2009

Announcing Fuselage - Get your Rails project off to a flying start!

Fuselage takes all the hassle out of installing several popular gems/plugins manually, as well as tidying up the default setup that the "rails" command gives you.

What's different about Fuselage? A lot of the Rails templates out there at the moment are quite primitive - a bunch of commands & files shoved in to a single file. Fuselage has a separate template for each gem/plugin, allowing you to specify all the relevant installs/commands/files/etc in one place. The goal here is to capture a lot of the setup logic that most Rails gems have in a single, reusable template.

Fuselage avoids asking a lot of questions, so if you want to customize your install, edit "template.rb" manually.


Usage is very simple. You can invoke it directly from your "rails -m" command with;

rails app_name -m http://github.com/siyelo/fuselage/raw/master/template.rb

(note this does a git clone of Fuselage for you automatically)

Or if you prefer, grab your own clone from http://github.com/siyelo/fuselage and set the FUSELAGE_DIR environment variable.

Full feature list

Currently Fuselage includes the following;

Rails
basic template for a clean a rails install
SCS
git
DB + Models
MySQL
authlogic
recaptcha
paperclip
Design/Layout
jQuery
haml
sass
compass + blueprint
formtastic
cufon
friendly_id
Controllers
make_resourceful
will_paginate
Testing
machinist
faker
cucumber
rspec
webrat
watchr - alternative to autotest
Search
thinking-sphinx
Security
tarantula
Metrics
metric_Fu
Production
passenger
capistrano
exception_notification


Extra templates included

These templates are included, but not installed by default. Manually edit template.rb to include them.

compass with 960 grid system
restful_authentication
forgery
asset_packager
whenever

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