Barebones

Barebones is my personal base Rails application. After developing a couple of Rails applications, I thought that there were some common gems and patterns that would be nice to have out of the box.

Installation

Install the gem:
gem install barebones

Then run:
barebones [AppName]

Flags

If you don't like using any of the below gems or configurations for whatever reason, you can skip them:

--skip-api
--skip-sorcery
--skip-minitest
--skip-resque
--skip-carrierwave

For example: barebones [AppName] --skip-api --skip-sorcery

Gemfile

Barebones' Gemfile includes various preconfigured gems such as:

File Uploading

Carrierwave for file uploading
Fog for AWS/Google cloud storage
MiniMagick for image cropping/resizing and all that good stuff

Background Processing

Resque for background workers
Resque-Scheduler for queueing workers in the future

Database

Postgres

Dev/Testing

Byebug for debugging
Pry Byebug for debugging background jobs
Web Console for debugging views
Quiet Assets for muting the Rails asset pipeline log
Awesome Print for pretty printing command line objects

Testing

Minitest for TDD/BDD
Minitest Reporters for customizable Minitest output formats

Authentication

Sorcery for user authentication

API

Jbuilder for building JSON structures
oj for faster JSON parsing (and a faster Jbuilder)
oj_mimic_json
MultiJSON

Design Patterns

Services (Pre-made folder)
Custom Decorator Class (A custom subclass of SimpleDelegator)

API

Routes with API subdomain and version namespacing
ApiConstraints for API version control
Configurations/Ping endpoint to test that the API works :)

Dependencies

Barebones requires the latest version of Ruby (2.2.3), Rails (4.2.3), and PostgreSQL (9.4) on your local machine.