Rails Starter

This project has been built to increase speed when creating a new application:
it's annoying to reconfigure always and always the same gems so this starter pack comes with
plugins already configured such as activeadmin, devise, globalize, and many others.

• Demo
• Requirements
• Usage
• Stack
• Tasks
  • Rails
  • Capistrano
• Modules
• Screenshots
• Thanks
• Contributing

Demo

A demonstration can be found at https://demo.lr-agenceweb.fr

# htpassword protection
Login: demo
Password: 6c40a98438

Requirements

Install Foreman
Install Maildev
Install Memcached

Usage

Clone it: git clone [email protected]:lr-agenceweb/rails-starter.git
Duplicate .env.example, rename it in .env and set correct values
Duplicate application.example.yml and rename it in application.yml
Duplicate database.example.yml and rename it in database.yml
Setup your environment variable (database, secret key, devise key, ...)
Go to the application folder: cd rails-starter
Install gems: bundle install
Create database: rake db:create
Load schema: rake db:schema:load
Seed datas: rake db:seed
Run foreman start
Visit http://localhost:3000
That's it !

Stack

Technology	Description
	This project use puma in local development. The server is launched using foreman start
	It use MySQL2 but you can choose to use PostgreSQL, SQlite or MariaDB. To create a dump of your database, run rake db:backup
	It use Slim template to write HTML views.
	Style is writting in scss and sass (using libsass) Scripts are created in coffeescript
	Caching is handled by memcached with Dalli
	It use maildev NodeJS package to test emails in local. You don't have nothing to do, maildev server will be launched in the same time as the rails server with foreman start. To see your mails, visit http://localhost:1080
Units Tests	Vanilla rails tests are included, just run rake test
Code structure	This project follow most of Rubocop rules
	Capistrano is used for an easy deploy to a private VPS

Tasks

Rails

• Color Routes: colored version of rake routes (run rake color_routes)

Capistrano

• Core

  • cap <env> core:upload:yml : Upload yml configuration files such as application, database, secrets, sitemap, ...
  • cap <env> core:upload:dkim : Upload DKIM private key
  • cap <env> core:upload:missing : Upload default pictures when missing or unavailable paperclip model objects
  • cap <env> core:upload:all : Execute all previous commands in one task

• Nginx/Puma

  • cap <env> nginx:start : Start Nginx server
  • cap <env> nginx:stop : Stop Nginx server
  • cap <env> nginx:restart : Retart Nginx server
  • cap <env> nginx:reload : Reload Nginx server
  • cap <env> nginx:status : Get current Nginx status
  • cap <env> puma:config : Upload puma config file
  • cap <env> puma:nginx_config : Upload puma vhost config file

• Database backup (needs Backup gem to be installed)

  • cap <env> backup:upload:config : Upload backup parent config file
  • cap <env> backup:upload:model : Upload model file corresponding to a database
  • cap <env> backup:upload:all : Upload both config and model files

• Logrotate

  • cap <env> logrotate:upload : Upload logrotate config file

• Paperclip

  • cap <env> paperclip:refresh:all : Regenerate all Paperclip styles
  • cap <env> paperclip:refresh:missing : Regenerate only missing Paperclip styles

Modules

Name	Description
Newsletter	In order to avoid spam email when sending newsletter to subscribers, you will need to sign your email address using SPF and DKIM keys and linked them to your DNS. Be sure to generate a dkim.private.key and dkim.public.key and move the dkim.private.key in config/dkim folder.
Blog	Write blog articles.
Slider	Add a slider on the page you want and customize its options.
Comment	Add comments for posts or blogs articles.
Guest Book	Allow users (connected or not) to leave a message in the guest book.
Event	Create events (with start date and end date)
Map	Display a Mapbox map of your organization or business
Social Network	Display social networks icons to share your site or let users to follow you on this networks
Breadcrumb	Show a breadcrumb on the page of your site
Video	Upload your own videos or add it from video platform such as Youtube or Dailymotion
Calendar	Choose start date and end date for your Events
Background	Display a background image for your pages
QrCode	Show a contact QrCode on the website
Adult	Display a popup the first time you access the website to inform you than you must be over 18 to continue your visit
RSS	Add a RSS feed to the website
Search	Add a search form to look on title or content post articles
Mailing	Application developped to send heavy mails number to users
SocialConnect	Allow users to LINK their ALREADY EXISTING Devise account to Facebook, Twitter or Google Social Connect.
Audio	Upload audio files and play them in an HTML5 player.

Screenshots

Frontend

Backend

Thanks

A big thanks to Grafikart for all his amazing tutorials !

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request