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rails-composer
Ruby2012–2017
RailsApps / rails-composer

rails-composer

Rails Composer. The Rails generator on steroids for starter apps.

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What it is

Rails Composer. The Rails generator on steroids for starter apps.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

I love Rails, but for me, it’s missing the Daniel Kehoe style generators. As a web app developer, I don’t want to configure omniauth, capybara, Twitter bootstrap, rspec. Add…

RailsLover98 used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year9 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-12-28 13:27:00 UTC to 2017-11-28 01:14:17 UTC.

0123452012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2017

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20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505

What Hacker News says

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RailsLover98·Nov 28, 2017Recommendation phrase
I love Rails, but for me, it’s missing the Daniel Kehoe style generators. As a web app developer, I don’t want to configure omniauth, capybara, Twitter bootstrap, rspec. Add that ability to the command line like: rails new Blog —configure bootstrap capybara rspec omniauth=github And then it automatically shows up. I get a landing page where I can login with github and get a skeleton spec directory where I can just start adding tests. And I can start using bootstrap css classes in my erb templates and they just work. I love Daniel Kehoe’s work (Rails Apps) and I’m surprised it’s not being incorporated into Rails. His work makes Rails even more approachable and I think Rails is missing Daniel’s little gem. https://github.com/RailsApps/rails-composer
In Rails 5.2
nathan_f77·Nov 9, 2017
I have to disagree. Writing your own boilerplate can be a great way to learn a new stack, but I think seasoned developers should use (and contribute to) projects that are maintained by the community. Whenever I come back to a boilerplate project, they're usually using the most recent versions of libraries, or they have some great new features. Examples: * Rails Composer, for Rails apps: https://github.com/RailsApps/rails-composer * Ignite, for React Native: https://github.com/infinitered/ignite I do have one hand-written script that I use for all of my static sites. It copies all the static files into a build directory, gzips HTML/CSS/JS, syncs everything to an S3 bucket, then makes an API request to Cloudflare to purge the cache. But I'm planning to move all my static sites to Netlify [1], so I won't need that script for much longer. [1]
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https://www.netlify.com
In The best boilerplate app is the one you code yourself
schwad·Aug 29, 2017
It's not super busy, but I'm not sure if it needs to be. There have been commits on it to handle 5.1: https://github.com/RailsApps/rails-composer/commit/7088e05e7... . I'll be honest, I use it a lot if I want to spin up a new Rails application and go through a quick CLI picking databases/auth approaches/test frameworks. The only other tool I would consider looking at for this is Thoughtbot's Suspenders but at this moment I have no pain points with rails-composer. In case I'm not the only one who likes to use it, I've added it to CodeTriage just now in case anyone would like to be involved in supporting this project. https://www.codetriage.com/railsapps/rails-composer
In Base Rails 5.1 application with pre-configured tools and features
DanielKehoe·Jul 3, 2014
Here's my feedback, as the developer of the Rails Composer tool [https://github.com/RailsApps/rails-composer]. I got started with "automated Rails development" (as you call it) using Michael Bleigh's RailsWizard. He built it at RailsRumble 2010 as a website that generates Rails apps. I forked it as Rails Composer when the project was abandoned, and developed it further, purely as a command-line tool. It's been the most popular project I've worked on in the Rails community, and also more work than I ever expected. I've had a huge community supporting Rails Composer as an open source project so I get a reliable stream of issue reports and pull requests. And I've built a business model to fund the project, by asking supporters to pay $19/mo, and offering my in-depth Rails tutorials as a reward for subscribers. That's the RailsApps project [h
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ttp://railsapps.github.io/]. Rails Composer is popular because developers really like a tool to build starter apps, and it's a lot of work because changes to Rails and gems constantly introduce entropy. I think you'll face a similar challenge with Prelang, maintaining the product as gems change. Developers want an automated Rails development tool because a good starter app will give them a reference implementation, code that is properly configured and guaranteed to work with the latest versions of all the popular gems. You'll have to keep checking and tweaking as gems and Rails versions change. That job will be easier if you limit the starter app to use only the most popular stack and a small set of popular gems, as you've done so far. You'll also need to monetize the project to be able to maintain it (I doubt it can succeed as a spare-time project). As a gauge of time required, I work fulltime on RailsApps, splitting my time between developing Rails Composer and writing the tutorials for the project's supporters. Erik, I hope you do well with Prelang. You've created a beautiful interface, the project is ambitious, and judging by Rails Composer, developers will want it.
In Show HN: Automated Rails development with Prelang

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