Starting a Rails Project From Scratch

Create your GitHub repository

1. Visit https://github.com/appdev-projects/base-rails
2. Click on “Use this template”
   
3. In the “Owner” dropdown, select your GitHub organization and choose a name for your project
   
4. Make sure “public” is selected
   
5. Click “Create repository from template”

Create a Gitpod workspace off of your GitHub repository

• Copy the URL of your GitHub repositroy
  
• In the address bar of your browser type: gitpod.io/# + your GitHub repository URL
  
  • Alternatively, if you have the Gitpod extension installed, you can click on the Gitpod button
    

Differences between base-rails and a plain new Rails app

We’ve added our usual goodies to the base-rails repository that aren’t included automatically in a new Rails app.

Gems

• amazing_print
• annotate
• better_errors
• binding_of_caller
• draft_generators
• dotenv-rails
• faker
• http
• pry-rails
• rails_db
• table_print
• web_git

Configuration files

• .gitpod.yml
• .pryrc
• config/application.rb
• config/initializers/active_record/attribute_methods_patch.rb
• config/initializers/active_record/relation.rb
• config/initializers/active_record/relation/calculations_patch.rb
• config/initializers/active_record/relation/delegation_patch.rb.rb
• config/initializers/fetch_store_patch.rb
• config/initializers/nicer_errors.rb
• config/initializers/open_uri.rb
• config/initializers/rails_db.rb
• config.ru
• lib/tasks/auto_annotate_models.rake
• Procfile

More details to come!

• Starting a Rails Project From Scratch
  • Create your GitHub repository
  • Create a Gitpod workspace off of your GitHub repository
  • Differences between base-rails and a plain new Rails app
    • Gems
    • Configuration files

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