Inspiration for the recent restructure from Matt Brictson's rails-template project

The Bad Monkeys Rails Template

A custom template and supporting files to generate a new Rails 5 SaaS application.

Requirements

This template is designed to work with:

• Rails 5.0.x
• PostgresQL
• Redis

The template requires that you have rails ~> 5.0 so before using it make sure you have the new release with:

$ gem install rails

Installation

To make this template the default template used for all new rails applications, create (or modify) a ~/.railsrc file and add:

-d postgresql
-m https://raw.githubusercontent.com/badmonkeys/saas_monkey/master/template.rb

Usage

The template can be easily used during the creation of a new Rails 5 application in several ways.

$ rails new app_name \
    -d postgresql \
    -m https://raw.githubusercontent.com/badmonkeys/saas_monkey/master/template.rb

Command Line arguments

The template responds to certain command line arguments passed to the rails new generator. All of these commands start with m_ like --m_git. Most of the arguments are boolean and appear or don't. However, for arguments like --m_remote and --m_user a value must be set like this: --m_user=Admin. The = is important.

Argument	Type	Notes
m_git	Boolean	When present, sets up a new git repository and commits template output
m_remote	String	Set with --m_remote=BLAH, sets the upstream URL for an origin git remote
m_devise	Boolean	When present, sets up devise
m_user	String	Set with --m-user=Admin, sets the class name used by Devise
m_heroku	Boolean	When present, sets up a new heroku app and pushes the initial build (Heroku Toolbelt must be installed and logged in prior to running the template)
m_minimal	Boolean	When present, runs only the basic install and skips all other setup including git, devise, heroku
m_force	Boolean	When present, no interactive questions are asked during installation (Everything defaults to false, except git unless otherwise passed on the command line)

Features

Gemset

README for the current set of gems in this template and their usage Coming Soon

Devise Setup

The template will ask during the application process if you'd like to setup Devise for authentication. The default response to this question is no. You can enter any response matching /^y(es)?/i to install and configure Devise. The devise class you want to use (Usually User) is also configurable through a question and defaults to User

Heroku App Creation

The template now asks after installation if you'd like to create a new heroku app for this project. If you answer "yes"-y (i.e. y, Y, or yes) it will create a new app using the heroku toolbelt and configure the free-tier of the NewRelic RPM addon. The name of your new heroku app will be the dasherize version of the name provided to the rails new command. It also uses initializes Heroku binstubs so that working with the heroku app has never been easier. Simply use production when you want to use the heroku toolbelt like so:

$ production run console

$ production logs

$ production addons:create ...

Customization

Fork It! This is just a quick starting point built from my workflow and default tools. Feel free to fork it, clone it, flame it, whatever. Just make sure to make it your own!