Ask HN: Help me improve my Rails 3 Environment. Please.

#1

Post by Rhodee » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 4:26 AM UTC

I am new to ruby, played with Sinatra now want to try Rails 3. I am setting up my environment and came up with a checklist.

How would you improve it?

Here is what I have installed

Rake .9.2 Compass 0.11.5 Rails 3.0.7 Passenger 3.0.7 + a host of dependencies. My goal is to create an environment with Compass Framework, Passenger and jQuery.

Here are my steps -- Thanks for the feedback!

Create Rails App, Database & Server Instance (1) Run rails new prjName --using blueprint (2) Is httpd.conf file pointing to right file? (3) Delete /public/index.html.erb (4) Update Rakefile if using Rake 0.9.2

module ::applicationName class Application include Rake::DSL end end

module ::RakeFileUtils extend Rake::FileUtilsExt end

(5) Run rake db:create:all (optional)

(6) Run rails g scaffold modelName attr:DataType..

(7) Add to route.rb root :to => 'resource#action'

(8) Run rake db:migrate

(9) Go to migrate folder and confirm contents of date_create_resource.rb

(10) Add gem "rake", "~> 0.9.2" to Gemfile

Set up jQuery, Compass and Finish Up

(11) Run compass init rails add generated statement to Gemfile

(12)

Add gem "jquery-rails", "~> 1.0.12" to Gemfile (13)

Run rails generate jquery:install --ui (14)

Run compass init rails (to generate a sass folder)? I should not have to do this? Any Compass Users please help me understand why this is the case...

(15) Place js references in ERB file

(16) Review, update Gemfile (jQuery,rake, compass)

(17) Update the compass.rb file

(18) Run bundle install

(19) Restart the server sudo apachectl graceful

Re: Ask HN: Help me improve my Rails 3 Environment. Please.

#2

Post by prognostikos » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 6:59 AM UTC

You can do 95% of this (excluding Apache configuration) automatically with Rails templates.

My example is here https://github.com/prognostikos/rails_templates/blob/master/... and if you search github you can find many more.

Use with 'rails new yourapp --template=path/to/template'

Re: Ask HN: Help me improve my Rails 3 Environment. Please.

#3

Post by lenary » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 9:59 AM UTC

no need to restart the server. if you're using passenger, just `$ touch tmp/restart.txt` (in your rails app). That will restart just that app in passenger (and lots of other servers too)

Re: Ask HN: Help me improve my Rails 3 Environment. Please.

#4

Post by Rhodee » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 1:25 PM UTC

lenary wrote: post #3

no need to restart the server. if you're using passenger, just `$ touch tmp/restart.txt` (in your rails app). That will restart just that app in passenger (and lots of other servers too)

@lenary thank you very much for your feedback. I recall reading about the restart.txt - what contents should be in this file or is it generated?

Re: Ask HN: Help me improve my Rails 3 Environment. Please.

#5

Post by Rhodee » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 1:27 PM UTC

prognostikos wrote: post #2

You can do 95% of this (excluding Apache configuration) automatically with Rails templates. My example is here https://github.com/prognostikos/rails_templates/blob/master/... and if you search github you can find many more. Use with 'rails new yourapp --template=path/to/template'

@prognostikos - thanks man. I saw your template and came across a few others. I came across this gem (https://github.com/kfaustino/rails-templater) I might give it a go. I understand about 85% of your script so I am definitely going to try and create my own from all this inspiration.