My Average Rails App Setup

setup.md

The Average Rails App Setup

Below outlines what is setup with my average rails app

Services

• Digital Ocean/AWS Server/Heroku
• AWS S3
• Heroku Postgres
• Skylight
• Mandrill/Sendgrid
• MailChimp
• Logentries
• Error Reporting App (Such as Sentry, Raygun, Rollbar) / Exception Notifier
• Github / Gitlab
• CI Service (Codeship)

Gems

• Devise
• Rspec
• Cabybara
• Pg
• puma
• lograge
• figaro
• bootstrap-sass/foundation/bourbon + neat
• bourbon
• simpleform
• quiet assets
• brakeman
• Rails Best Practices
• letter opener
• capistrano
• pry
• launchy
• factory girl
• email spec
• faker
• simplecov
• shoulda matchers
• haml rails
• carrierwave
• minimagick
• database cleaner
• mail form
• poltergeist (js testing within rspec)
• bundler-audit
• sitemap_generator
• i18n-tasks
• Rubocop
• RubyCritic
• autoprefixer-rails
• virtus
• roadie rails
• awesome_print
• meta_request (for railspanel)
• newrelic (visit /newrelic and see awesome stats)
• pghero (db stats for postgres)
• logster (https://github.com/discourse/logster)
• activerecord-colored_log_subscriber (colorize logs in dev)
• gemsmith (https://github.com/bkuhlmann/gemsmith, for bootstrapping gems/engines and working with gems)
• spring-commands-rspec
• email_validator

Setup Help

To help get things started, rails apps composer is generally used

Development

Write Acceptance Tests First then Unit Tests

Launching a Rails App

See this gist for when you THINK you are ready to launch the app.