Booster Engine for Rails

A booster engine (for trains) is used to start a heavy train and get it cruising along on the rails

Booster Engine (the project) is an opinionated (and useful, and sane) set of Rails defaults so you can get rolling with Rails.

While Rails certainly gives you a loooot out of the box, it takes a bit of time to actually make it do anything useful. That's because of its (generally admirable) omakase (lit: "I leave it up to you") philosophy.

Changes and Improvements Over rails new

• Include useful, bare-minimum gems for productive and enjoyable development
  • Style on 'em: rubocop, rubocop-rails, rubocop-minitest, rubocop-performance, htmlbeautifier
  • Look good-ish by default: sassc-rails, bootstrap-sass
  • Enable `bcrypt`` gem by default
    • Opinionated .rubocop.yml included 😈
  • Debug and explore with pry-byebug
  • Easy test iteration: guard, guard-minitest
    • Customized Guardfile to get you rolling
  • Know what you're working with: annotate
    • Adds handy list of DB columns to models (run annotate or do a migration)
    • Adds list of routes to config/routes.rb

Usage

TODO

• Opinionated VSCode project defaults for auto formatting, etc
• Tests, tests
• Git commit hook to output commit hash and other info
  • Include this information at the bottom of the app layout
• Add Rails flashes to application layout (why isn't this the default?)
• Freeze time w/ Timecop or ActiveSupport::Testing::TimeHelpers at the beginning of tests
• More usable new project generator ala Suspenders
  • In general, borrow things from Suspenders when it makes sense
    • Stylelint integration / config
    • SECRET_KEY_BASE
    • Rack::Deflater
    • How do they test?
    • t() and l() in specs without prefixing with I18n
• More gems
  • Oj
  • Sidekiq (overkill?)
  • Simple Form
  • Dotenv
  • Bullet
  • Bundler Audit
  • Recipient Interceptor