Saucy

Saucy is a Rails engine for monthly subscription-style SaaS apps.

Example scenarios covered by Saucy:

  • I sign up for "Free" plan under new account "thoughtbot"
  • I am an admin and can be reached at "[email protected]"
  • I create a project "Hoptoad"
  • I upgrade to the "Basic" plan and my credit card is charged
  • I now have permissions to add users and projects to the "thoughtbot" account
  • I invite "[email protected]" to "Hoptoad"
  • I create a project "Trajectory"
  • I invite "[email protected]" to "Trajectory"

Installation

In your Gemfile:

gem "saucy", :git => '[email protected]:thoughtbot/saucy.git'

After you bundle, run the generators:

rails generate saucy:install
rails generate saucy:views

You will want to include the ensure_active_account before_filter in any controller actions that you want to protect if the user is using an past due paid account.

You will want to custom the from email address on billing emails:

Saucy::Configuration.mailer_sender = "[email protected]"

In addition, there are a number of string such as application name, support url, etc. that are provided and customized with i18n translations. You can customize these in your app, and you can see what they are by looking at config/locales/en.yml in saucy.

Development environment

Plans need to exist for users to sign up for. In db/seeds.rb:

%w(free expensive mega-expensive).each do |plan_name|
  Plan.find_or_create_by_name(plan_name)
end

Then run: rake db:seed

Test environment

Generate the Braintree Fake for your specs:

rails generate saucy:specs

Generate feature coverage:

rails generate saucy:features

To use seed data in your Cucumber, add this to features/support/seed.rb:

require Rails.root.join('db','seeds')

Customization

To change the layout for a controller inside of saucy, add a line like this to your config/application.rb:

config.saucy.layouts.accounts.index = "custom"

Your layout should yield(:header) in order to get the headers from saucy views.

To extend the ProjectsController:

class ProjectsController < ApplicationController
  include Saucy::ProjectsController

  def edit
    super
    @deleters = @project.deleters
  end
end