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department-of-veterans-affairs / roadrunner-rails

Base rails project with the VA special sauce.
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Make it easy to download a clean project (for starting a new project) #4

Closed shanear closed 8 years ago

shanear commented 8 years ago

Use Raygun for generating new projects: https://github.com/carbonfive/raygun-rails

In addition to changing all the names, it may also need to:

jeffmaher commented 8 years ago

Read through all the Raygun code. This is all it does:

  1. Copy down a GitHub repo
  2. Do a find/replace on string variations of "App Template" (like "app-template", "AppTemplate" etc.)

I think we can successfully replicate the perks of Raygun (easy starting a project), without actually using Raygun. Instead, we can just keep the project clean and have folks download the ZIP file from the Road Runner guide.

shanear commented 8 years ago

I agree. I'm also ok with the startup script doing what Raygun does. Just thought it might be easy to ride off of their stuff.