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Switch completely from using `rails` to using `rails-api`? #22

Open GA-MEB opened 8 years ago

jrhorn424 commented 8 years ago

Generally in favor. Anyone else?

gaand commented 8 years ago

I favor this. And rails new <name> --api in rails 5.

jrhorn424 commented 8 years ago

If there's no further discussion, I consider this a decision.

jrhorn424 commented 7 years ago

This has largely been accomplished. There remains some confusion during on-boarding about this point. I'm not sure where to track this sort of decision.

Basically, we prefer folks use our rails-api-template to start new projects instead of rails new. If they want to use rails new or rails-api new outside the course, they'll probably want to reach for something like this:

rails-api new my_project --skip-javascript --skip-sprockets --skip-spring --skip-turbolinks --skip-test-unit --database=postgresql