My favorite Rails setup.

gistfile1.rb

# My Rails 2.3 Template
# You can use it like this:
# rails your_app_name -m http://gist.github.com/91403.txt

# Plugins
plugin 'rspec',                   :git => 'git://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec.git'
plugin 'rspec-rails',             :git => 'git://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec-rails.git'
plugin 'role_requirement',        :git => 'git://github.com/lorennorman/role_requirement.git'
plugin 'restful-authentication',  :git => 'git://github.com/technoweenie/restful-authentication.git'
plugin 'aasm',                    :git => 'git://github.com/rubyist/aasm.git'
plugin 'make_resourceful',        :git => "git://github.com/hcatlin/make_resourceful.git"
plugin 'haml',                    :git => "git://github.com/nex3/haml.git"

# Specify Gems
gem 'thoughtbot-factory_girl',  :lib => 'factory_girl',   :source => 'http://gems.github.com'
gem 'mislav-will_paginate',     :lib => 'will_paginate',  :source => 'http://gems.github.com'

# Install Gems
rake('gems:install', :sudo => true)

# Freeze Gems
rake('gems:unpack:dependencies')

# Run rspec generator
generate("rspec")

# Generate restful-authentication user and session
generate("authenticated", "user session --aasm")

# Generate roles for User
generate("roles", "Role User")

# Freeze Rails into vendor/rails
freeze!

# Add Capistrano
capify!

# jquery and jquery-form
run "curl -L http://jqueryjs.googlecode.com/files/jquery-1.2.6.min.js > public/javascripts/jquery.js"
run "curl -L http://jqueryjs.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/plugins/form/jquery.form.js > public/javascripts/jquery.form.js"

# Remove unnecessary Rails files
run 'rm README'
run 'rm public/index.html'
run 'rm public/favicon.ico'
run 'rm public/images/rails.png'

# Remove temp dirs
["./tmp/pids", "./tmp/sessions", "./tmp/sockets", "./tmp/cache"].each do |f|
  run("rmdir ./#{f}")
end
 
# Hold empty dirs
run("find . \\( -type d -empty \\) -and \\( -not -regex ./\\.git.* \\) -exec touch {}/.gitignore \\;")
 
# Initialize Git
git :init

# Create our .gitignore file
file '.gitignore', <<-CODE
log/\\*.log
log/\\*.pid
db/\\*.db
db/\\*.sqlite3
db/schema.rb
tmp/\\*\\*/\\*
.DS_Store
doc/api
doc/app
config/database.yml
CODE

# Make a database.yml sample
run "cp config/database.yml config/database.yml.sample"

# Commit and get started!
git :add => "."
git :commit => "-m 'Initial commit chock full of plugins, gems, initialization scripts and .gitignores.'"

# Ready to "rake db:migrate" to install the users and roles