Derail

A collection of helpers and libraries which I use in almost every project, and a generator to get started quickly.

Some of this stuff may graduate into gems or get contributed back to other projects.

Features

Generators:
- derail:app: Derails a new rails project, basically doing all the following:
- Configure databases:
  - development: APPNAME_development/development/development
  - test: APPNAME_test/test/test
  - production: read from environment (DATABASE/DATABASE_USERNAME/DATABASE_PASSWORD).
- Configure ActionMailer:
  - development: default_url_options to _APPNAME_.dev, MailCatcher delivery.
  - test: default_url_options to _APPNAME_.test.
- Makes SASS the default stylesheet syntax (not SCSS) and converts application.css to application.css.sass.
- Converts application.js to application.js.coffee.
- Installs RSpec
- Installs Cucumber
- Installs RR
- Installs Guard (ego, bundler, rspec, cucumber)
- Runs formtastic:install
- Runs derail:devise
- Removes default index.html and rails.png
- derail:devise: Install devise, setup a user, install remarkable_devise.
- derail:devise:haml: Installs fully-localizable, HTML5, formtastic Devise HAML templates.
Updated scaffold templates:
- HTML5, formtastic scaffold HAML templates.
- Responder-based scaffold controller.
Helpers:
- Activated link helper, adapted from a few places. Documentation coming.
- Flashes helper, lists all your flashes in aside elements.
- Text helper with working truncate_html using Hpricot.
Vendored javascripts:
- modernizr.
- innershiv and jQuery innershiv.
- jQuery autolink, mailto and highlight helpers, separated for leanness.
- jQuery.timeago
Plenty more to come!

To create a new app, I run:

rails new APPNAME --skip-test-unit --database=postgresql --template http://sj26.com/derail

For handyness in zsh:

function derail() { rails new $1 --skip-test-unit --database=postgresql --template http://sj26.com/derail $@[2,-1] }

then

derail APPNAME

Add them to your applictation's javascript files using sprockets require directives, a la jQuery:

//= require jquery_innershiv

It's Rails 3.1 only, but you should be basing your new projects on the latest and greatest! It'll be stable by the time you release... right?

I'm presuming your using my devise branch:

gem "devise", :git => "git://github.com/sj26/devise.git", :branch => "template-inheritence"

If not, copy the HAML templates into your project and re-twiddle the footer partial.

Home generator.
Admin generator.
Admin scaffold generator.
Pages generator.
(Some) in-app errors handler generator.
Page title helper inspired by page_title_helper
Vendored WYSIWYG (can't decide which library).
Formtastic WYSIWYG field helpers.
Tilt-based renderable activerecord fields with filter white/blacklists and stored filter type.
More tests.