Time saving template for Rails 3.2 projects using the standard configuration options

standard_template.rb

repo_name = app_name.gsub('_','-')

say "creating superuser for postgres with username : #{app_name}"
run "createuser #{app_name}"

say "initializing git repository"
git :init

say "adding .DS_Store & .env to .gitignore file"
append_to_file ".gitignore" do <<-TXT

# Ignore OS X generated .DS_Store files.
.DS_Store

# Ignore development environment variables.
.env
TXT
end

say "adding heroku gem for deployment"
gem("heroku")

say "adding thin gem as a server"
gem("thin")

say "adding foreman gem to manage processes"
gem("foreman")

say "adding guard-livereload for live reloading in development"
gem("guard-livereload", :group => "development")

say "creating .procfile for foreman to use"
add_file("Procfile")
append_to_file 'Procfile' do <<-TXT
web: bundle exec rails server thin -p $PORT
guard: guard start
TXT
end

say "creating .env to use for development environment variables"
add_file(".env")

if yes?("Do you want to use slim for templating?")
  use_slim = true
  say "adding slim gem for templating using slim"
  gem("slim-rails")
end

if yes?("Do you want to use twitter boostrap?")
  use_bootstrap = true
  say "adding twitter bootstrap"
  gem("twitter-bootstrap-rails", :group => "assets")
end

say "running bundle install... this may take a while"
run "bundle install"

say "creating Guardfile with guard init"
run "bundle exec guard init"

if use_bootstrap
  run "rails g bootstrap:install"
  if yes?("Do you want a fluid layout?")
    run "rails g bootstrap:layout application fluid"
  else
    run "rails g bootstrap:layout application fixed"
  end
  say "removing old erb application template"
  remove_file "app/views/layouts/application.html.erb"
  
  say "removing broken default bootstrap application.html.slim"
  remove_file "app/views/layouts/application.html.slim"
  
  say "adding working application.html.slim"
  add_file("app/views/layouts/application.html.slim")
  append_to_file "app/views/layouts/application.html.slim" do <<-TXT
doctype html
html lang="en"
  head
    meta charset="utf-8"
    title= content_for?(:title) ? yield(:title) : "#{app_name}"
    = csrf_meta_tags

    /! HTML5 shim for IE6-8 support of HTML elements
    /[if lt IE 9]
      = javascript_include_tag "http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"
    /! include styles
    = stylesheet_link_tag "application", :media => "all"

  body
    .navbar.navbar-fixed-top
      .navbar-inner
        .container-fluid
          a.btn.btn-navbar data-target=".nav-collapse" data-toggle="collapse"
            span.icon-bar
            span.icon-bar
            span.icon-bar
          = link_to "#{app_name}", "/", :class => "brand"
          .container-fluid.nav-collapse
            ul.nav
              li= link_to "Link 1", "/path1"
              li= link_to "Link 2", "/path2"
              li= link_to "Link 3", "/path3"

    .container-fluid

      .row-fluid
        .span3
          .well.sidebar-nav
            ul.nav.nav-list
              li.nav-header Sidebar
              li= link_to "Link 1", "/path1"
              li= link_to "Link 2", "/path2"
              li= link_to "Link 3", "/path3"
        .span9
          = yield
    
      hr
      
      footer
        p &copy; Company 2012
    
    /! include javascript at the end for better performance
    = javascript_include_tag "application"
  TXT
  end
end

if yes?("Do you want to create a simple home controller?")
  say "removing index.html"
  remove_file 'public/index.html'
  
  say "create a home controller and view"
  if use_bootstrap
    generate(:controller, "home index --skip-stylesheets")
  else
    generate(:controller, "home index")
  end
  
  say "set route to home#index now"
  inject_into_file "config/routes.rb", :after => ".routes.draw do\n" do
    "  root :to => 'home#index'\n"
  end
end

say "Updating README to default"
remove_file 'README.rdoc'
add_file("README.md")
append_to_file "README.md" do <<-TXT
# #{app_name}  
  
Need to add a proper description here... ASAP.


TXT
end

say "creating & migrating database"
run "bundle exec rake db:create"
run "bundle exec rake db:migrate"

say "add files to git"
git :add => "."

say "first commit"
git :commit => "-m '#{repo_name} app generated using standard template'"

if yes?("Do you want to push this to a new public github repo called #{repo_name} now?")
  run "gem install github"
  if yes?("Are you using rbenv to manage ruby?")
    run "rbenv rehash"
  end
  run "github create-from-local '#{repo_name}'"
end

if yes?("How about creating a heroku account called #{repo_name} now too?")
  run "bundle exec heroku create #{repo_name} --stack cedar"
  if yes?("...and push it live now?")
    run "git push heroku master"
    run "bundle exec heroku run rake db:migrate"
  end
end