Bootstrapping with Ruby on Rails Generators and Templates

• Thor

  10 5,091 6.9 Ruby

  Thor is a toolkit for building powerful command-line interfaces.

  

Not to be confused with generator functions (which you might be familiar with from Python or Javascript), Rails generators are custom Thor commands that focus on, well, generating things.

• dotenv

  19 6,506 8.6 Ruby

  A Ruby gem to load environment variables from `.env`. (by bkeepers)

Install the dotenv gem.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• rspec-rails

  20 5,116 8.7 Ruby

  RSpec for Rails 6+

  

Optionally install and set up Rspec.

• jumpstart

  7 1,186 5.8 HTML

  Easily jumpstart a new Rails application with a bunch of great features by default

Everyone has different preferences for writing and developing Rails apps, so there are numerous generators and application templates out there. You can learn a lot about doing specific customizations by reading about them. I recommend Chris Oliver's Jumpstart and RailsBytes, the latter of which is a community-curated collection of templates.

• Suspenders

  2 3,976 3.1 Ruby

  A Rails template with our standard defaults, ready to deploy to Heroku.

  

There is also Thoughtbot's Suspenders, which inspired me to dig deeper into Rails generators and templates. I even wrote my own application template — Schienenzeppelin — which, while not up-to-date, might still provide some inspiration.

• schienenzeppelin

  1 20 1.7 Ruby

  Discontinued A Rails app generator to get you started quickly. Includes TailwindCSS, Devise, Deployment and more

There is also Thoughtbot's Suspenders, which inspired me to dig deeper into Rails generators and templates. I even wrote my own application template — Schienenzeppelin — which, while not up-to-date, might still provide some inspiration.

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