Rails Bootstrap

If I was going to build a SASS from scratch. These would be the set of tools I would use. Every Rails developer has their favorite set of tools and gems. These happen to be mine.

The Setup includes:

• Testing with RSpec and Factory Girl. You can specify retry counts with the RETRIES environment variable i.e. RETRIES=5 bundle exec rspec spec to retry failing specs 5 times. By default failing specs get retried 3 times.
• Application Administration with Active Admin.
• Application Monitoring with Rollbar, Skylight and New Relic.
• Continuous Integration and Deployment with Circle CI.
• Continuous Code Checks with Code Climate
• Customer Support with Intercom and Heap
• Design with Twitter Bootstrap

Installation

Development

macOS

1. git clone https://github.com/tansengming/rails-base.git
2. cd rails-base
3. rm -rf .git
4. rm config/secrets.yml.enc
5. git init && git add . && git commit -m 'initial commit'
6. rails secrets:setup
7. rails secrets:edit and use the values from config/secrets.yml.sample
8. docker-compose up --build
9. docker-compose run app rake db:create
10. docker-compose run app rake db:migrate
11. docker-compose run app rake db:seed
12. A web server should be running at http://localhost:3000, a client for the SMTP server should be running at http://localhost:1080
13. Sign up for accounts at Skylight, Segment, Heap, Intercom, sendwithus, Code Climate and Circle CI.
14. Update your secrets at rails secrets:edit with all the tokens from the accounts you just signed up for.

Application Notes

• There are 2 levels of admins. Regular admins get to administer the app. Super Admins administer regular admins. You can access them at /admin and /super_admins.
• You can ping the app at /up.json for availability monitoring. If all goes well it will respond with {"status":"ok"}.