Rails Starter

custom boilerplate rails app

Summary

• uses both webpack and sprockets
• webpack-dev-server (automatic page reloading—only for assets though)
• css is extracted from js to separate file
• postcss-cssnext
• haml
• postgresql
• puma
• no jquery dependency
• global settings (see config/settings.yml)

Setup

$ bundle install
$ yarn init
$ yarn
$ rails secret
set SECRET_KEY_BASE var
rename db names in database.yml
$ git init
$ rails db:create
$ foreman start
$ open http://localhost:5000

To Do

• add es6 and jsx loaders
• set up asynchronous webfont loading
• set up React (probably in a separate boilerplate)
• capistrano?
• set up production task(s)
• auto-page-reloading on view changes—is that possible?
• seo meta tags (open graph, twitter)
• normalize styles

Notes

• whereas webpack --watch compiles to disk (updates the app/assets/build folder on changes), webpack-dev-server does not
• uncomment config/puma.rb in gitignore when deploying (and add production puma.rb on server)

Research (for future reference)

• webpack, cssnext, asynchronous webfont loading
• enable delete requests without jquery dependency