Yastart

Yastart is the base Rails application used at yafoy. It is heavily inspired from the Suspenders gem by thoughbot.

Installation

First install the yastart gem:

gem install yastart

Then run:

yastart projectname

This will create a Rails app in projectname using the latest version of Rails.

Gemfile

To see the latest and greatest gems, look at Yastart' Gemfile, which will be appended to the default generated projectname/Gemfile.

It includes application gems like:

• Figaro to manage environment variables
• Flutie for page_title and body_class view helpers
• High Voltage for static pages
• Postgres for access to the Postgres database
• Rack Canonical Host to ensure all requests are served from the same domain
• Rack Timeout to abort requests that are taking too long
• Simple Form for form markup and style
• Title for storing titles in translations

And development gems like:

• Better Errors to replace the standard Rails error page with a much better and more useful error page
• ByeBug for interactively debugging behavior
• Bullet for help to kill N+1 queries and unused eager loading
• Bundler Audit for scanning the Gemfile for insecure dependencies based on published CVEs
• Ffaker to populate database with dummies
• Hirb to improve ripl(irb)'s default inspect output
• Letter Opener to preview email in the default browser
• Quiet Assets for muting assets pipeline log messages
• Rack Mini Profiler to display speed badge for every html page
• Spring for fast Rails actions via pre-loading
• Thin to serve HTTP requests
• Web Console for better debugging via in-browser IRB consoles

And testing gems like:

• minitest-reporters

And production gems like:

• Exception Notification to send notifications when errors occur
• Unicorn as web server
• Rails 12 Factor for Heroku deployment

Configuration

Production

• Set up exception notifier

Development

• Configure generators
• Create rake bs rake task
• Set up config/database.yml
• Set up config/application.yml
• Set up db/sample_data.rb
• Set up .gitignore

Test

• Set up Minitest