Brace

Brace is a base Rails application.

Installation

First install the brace gem:

gem install brace

Then run:

brace projectname

This will create a Rails app in projectname.

Gemfile

To see the latest and greatest gems, look at Brace's Gemfile, which will be appended to the default generated projectname/Gemfile.

It includes application gems like:

And development gems like:

And testing gems like:

Other goodies

Brace also comes with:

Heroku

You can optionally create Heroku staging and production apps:

brace app --heroku true

This:

You can optionally specify alternate Heroku flags:

brace app \
  --heroku true \
  --heroku-flags "--region eu --addons newrelic,pgbackups,sendgrid,ssl"

See all possible Heroku flags:

heroku help create

Git

This will initialize a new git repository for your Rails app. You can bypass this with the --skip-git option:

brace app --skip-git true

GitHub

You can optionally create a GitHub repository for the suspended Rails app. It requires that you have Hub on your system:

curl http://hub.github.com/standalone -sLo ~/bin/hub && chmod +x ~/bin/hub
brace app --github organization/project

This has the same effect as running:

hub create organization/project

Dependencies

Brace requires the latest version of Ruby.

Some gems included in Brace have native extensions. You should have GCC installed on your machine before generating an app with Brace.

Use OS X GCC Installer for Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6).

Use Command Line Tools for XCode for Lion (OS X 10.7) or Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8).

PostgreSQL needs to be installed and running for the db:create rake task.

Credits

Brace is an extension of {thoughtbot, inc}[http://thoughtbot.com/community]‘s suspenders. Thanks thoughtbot for making a great Rails templating gem.

License

Brace is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the LICENSE file.