#148 App Templates in Rails 2.3

Feb 09, 2009 | 11 minutes | Rails 2.3

In Rails 2.3 you can provide a template when generating a new Rails application. See how in this episode.

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          bash
        
sudo gem install rails --source http://gems.rubyonrails.org
rails -v
rails store -m base_template.rb
rails store -m auth_template.rb

          base_template.rb
        
run "echo TODO > README"

generate :nifty_layout

gem 'RedCloth', :lib => 'redcloth'
gem 'mislav-will_paginate', :lib => 'will_paginate', :source => 'http://gems.github.com'
rake "gems:install"

if yes?("Do you want to use RSpec?")
  plugin "rspec", :git => "git://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec.git"
  plugin "rspec-rails", :git => "git://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec-rails.git"
  generate :rspec
end

git :init

file ".gitignore", <<-END
.DS_Store
log/*.log
tmp/**/*
config/database.yml
db/*.sqlite3
END

run "touch tmp/.gitignore log/.gitignore vendor/.gitignore"
run "cp config/database.yml config/example_database.yml"

git :add => ".", :commit => "-m 'initial commit'"

          auth_template.rb
        
load_template "/Users/rbates/code/base_template.rb"

name = ask("What do you want a user to be called?")
generate :nifty_authentication, name
rake "db:migrate"

git :add => ".", :commit => "-m 'adding authentication'"

generate :controller, "welcome index"
route "map.root :controller => 'welcome'"
git :rm => "public/index.html"

git :add => ".", :commit => "-m 'adding welcome controller'"