Wagon Rails

Wagon Rails is the base Rails application used by Le Wagon's students during the 9-week FullStack bootcamp. It's the scripted version of lewagon/rails-kickoff where you would manually copy/paste commands to achieve the same result with just one command line.

Installation

First install the wagon_rails gem:

$ gem install wagon_rails

Then run:

$ cd ~/code/YOUR_GITHUB_NICKNAME
$ wagon_rails new YOUR_PROJECT_NAME

This will create a Rails app in YOUR_PROJECT_NAME using the latest version of Rails, create a GitHub repository and an application on Heroku.

Advanced usages

If you don't want to create a GitHub repo, use the --skip-github flag, and if you don't want to create an Heroku app, use the --skip-heroku flag.

$ wagon_rails new YOUR_PROJECT_NAME --skip-github --skip-heroku

Dependencies

This gem suppose that you have Postgresql on your computer. Check out lewagon/setup

For the GitHub repo creation, it assumes you have the hub gem installed.

$ gem install hub

And for the Heroku app creation, it assumes that you have the heroku binary and are logged in (heroku login).

$ brew install heroku
$ heroku login

Gemfile

To see the latest and greatest gems, look at WagonRails' Gemfile, which will be appended to the default generated projectname/Gemfile.

It includes application gems like:

• Postgres for access to the Postgres database
• Figaro for environment variables and configuration management.
• Simple Form for form markup and style
• High Voltage for static pages
• Devise for user authentication
• Paperclip for file attachment and S3 upload.
• Bootstrap to jump start the design with a solid responsive grid and basic UI components.
• Font Awesome to get a nice iconography

And development gems like:

• Pry Rails for interactively exploring objects
• Pry ByeBug for interactively debugging behavior
• Better Errors for a great error page with remote debugging
• Letter Opener for testing emails in development.

And production gems for a ready-to-deploy app on Heroku.

• Rails 12factor for injecting the required Rails configuration
• Puma for a blazing fast HTTP server in production (recommended by Heroku)

WagonRails, when the --skip-heroku flag is not used, will add a deploy script to the bin repository. Simply deploy with:

$ deploy  # git push heroku + rake db:migrate + restart

Option

You can enable Pundit for user authorization, open the Gemfile, uncomment the pundit gem. Then:

$ bundle install
$ rails g pundit:install

Credits

WagonRails is a fork of thoughtbot/suspenders, which is maintained and funded by thoughtbot, inc.

Thank you guys for creating this gem in the first place!