RailsClone

[WIP]

I needed to generate Rails apps from my 'golden' base app for my clients.

I prefer to maintain a versioned prototype and clone client apps from that, instead of fiddling with Rails templates.

This is a gem to automate that.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'rails_clone'

And then execute:

$ bundle

You'll see a new app:clone task:

rake app:clone[from,name,branch]    # Clone an app from a branch

You want to change the app name (usually the namespace, db names, etc) from some name to another name.

$ rake app:clone[prototype,new_app,master]

prototype - the name of your prototype app. I maintain 4 app variants named "Prime", "Omakase" and the mongodb variants of them.
new_app - in the example, an app named "new_app"
master - in the example, the branch I want to clone from

Fork, implement, add tests, pull request, get my everlasting thanks and a respectable place here :).