Setting up a new Rails app with Git
Ok so you want to be cool like all other rails developers out there and use Git for your projects. Here is a quick run down of how you might go about it.
Firstly create your rails app and using terminal go into the root of that project.
Then create a top, project-level .gitignore file. I use textmate so this can be done like so
$ mate .gitignore
Then add the following to the .gitignore file
.DS_Store log/*.log tmp/**/* config/database.yml db/*.sqlite3
You can also add more directories or files in here to ignore like css files if using sass for example, or your uploads directory.
Create some .gitignore files so the empty directories get tracked:
$ touch log/.gitignore $ touch tmp/.gitignore
and finally commit that bad boy
$ git add . $ git commit -m "First commit"
Running git add will tell git to track all the new files (Since first commit thats all of them). The commit will commit to your local Git repository and all that is left to do would be to add it to GitHub for example and your in business.
Cool colours and GitHub branch in Terminal
There are many posts out there about making terminal have nice colours and getting it to display your projects GitHub branch. So l thought l would post mine
Here is what my terminal looks like.
Yes l am using Ryan Bates railscasts as my sample project (Thanks Ryan). As you can see it has the username@machine and then if you are in a project running git is also has the branch.
All you need to do it add the following to either your bash_login or bash_profile depending on what you are using. So first you run
mate ~/.bash_login
I am using textmate to edit this file. Once there simple add the following
export CLICOLOR=1
export TERM=xterm-color
export LSCOLORS=gxfxcxdxbxegedabagacad # cyan directories
export PS1="\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;36m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ \`ruby -e \"print (%x{git branch 2> /dev/null}.grep(/^\*/).first || '').gsub(/^\* (.+)$/, '(\1) ')\"\`\[\033[37m\]$\[\033[00m\] "
Save the file and reload your bash like so and you are good to go enjoy.
. ~/.bash_login
Of course you can change the colour of the font but ill leave that to you
Sentia rails application templates now on GitHub
We have just made a project on github to store our rails application templates that we talked about here. You can check it out here. Enjoy
Application templates in Ruby on Rails
Here is the latest application template we have put together. It removes all the usual items and adds the base gems that we use for all our applications. It also creates the files needed for deployment and runs “Capify” on the project, plus a few other things such as sass etc.
# Remove unnecessary Rails files run 'rm README' run 'rm public/index.html' run 'rm public/favicon.ico' run 'rm public/images/rails.png' run 'rm -f public/javascripts/*' # Download JQuery run "curl -s -L http://jqueryjs.googlecode.com/files/jquery-1.3.1.min.js > public/javascripts/jquery.js" run "curl -s -L http://jqueryjs.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/plugins/form/jquery.form.js > public/javascripts/jquery.form.js" #Configure required gems gem "haml", :version => "2.0.4" gem 'thoughtbot-shoulda', :lib => 'shoulda', :source => 'http://gems.github.com' gem "thoughtbot-factory_girl", :lib => "factory_girl", :source => "http://gems.github.com" #Create Sass directory run 'mkdir public/stylesheets/sass' #Capify and create production environment.rb run 'mkdir config/deploy' run 'touch config/deploy/production.rb' #Add UAT environment and settings file 'config/environments/uat.rb', <<-CODE # Settings specified here will take precedence over those in config/environment.rb # Code is not reloaded between requests. Server needs to be restarted. config.cache_classes = true # Log error messages when you accidentally call methods on nil. config.whiny_nils = true # Show full error reports and disable caching config.action_controller.consider_all_requests_local = false config.action_controller.perform_caching = true config.action_view.cache_template_loading = true # Don't care if the mailer can't send config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = false CODE #Create gitignore file and setup base ignores run "touch tmp/.gitignore log/.gitignore vendor/.gitignore" file '.gitignore', <<-FILE .DS_Store log/*.log tmp/**/* db/*.sqlite3 public/stylesheets/*.css FILE # Set up git repository git :init git :add => '.' git :commit => "-a -m 'Initial commit'" # Success! puts "SUCCESS!"
