Rails Setup

Make it easier for developers to get your rails app up and running with a little help from Rails Setup. Rails Setup adds a few handy rake tasks which will empower you to create a rake setup task that looks like this:

desc "Setup my awesome app"
setup_task :setup do
  puts "#{heart} Thanks for helping us out!" # Show developers you <3 them

  section "Database" do # Outputs a nice looking header
    silence do          # Hide noisy output from other rake tasks
      Rake::Task["db:setup"].invoke
    end

    done "Database" # Display a nice checkbox so developers know you are done
  end

  section "Use Highline" do
    if console.agree("Isn't this really cool?")
      puts 100.times.map { heart }.join
    end
  end
end

and outputs prompts like this:

Usage

Add this to your app's Gemfile

gem 'rails_setup'

Then create a new file in lib/tasks called setup.rake with some small boilerplate code

desc "Setup this application"
setup_task :setup do
  puts "#{heart} Thanks for helping us out!" # Show developers you <3 them

  # Do all your setup tasks (create secret_token / database.yml, etc) here.
end

Contributing

Features and bugs are tracked through Github Issues.

Contributors retain copyright to their work but must agree to release their contributions under the same terms as this project. For details, please see the LICENSE file.

If you would like to help with developing Rails Setup, please get in touch! Contact Jordan through GitHub (@jordanbyron) or Twitter (@jordan_byron).