Rails initial setup checklist

README.md

Checklist for a rails app

• Is email setup properly
• New relic setup to recieve errors, performance stats, availability check.
• Exception mailer wired up for exceptions
• Wire up a settings library ( https://github.com/viatropos/cockpit or https://github.com/wycats/moneta or a simple settings file )
• Wireup a few basic initializers containing extension methods for Strings, Time etc,. (create a gem for this?)
• Setup capistrano
• Setup foreman (with upstart export templates)
• Setup logrotate for the production.log
• Setup unicorn, nginx
• Setup startssl if the site needs SSL
• Setup a favicon to be served from Amazon S3
• Setup all the static images to be served from Amazon S3? (This will greatly reduce server loads)
• Setup proper caching at rails app server level / nginx level and browser level

settings.rb

#lib/settings.rb
require 'yaml'

class Settings
  @@settings = YAML::load_file(Rails.root + 'config/config.yml')[Rails.env]

  class MissingSettingOptionError < StandardError;
  end

  def self.method_missing(key)
    raise MissingSettingOptionError, "#{key.to_s} is not in the config file" unless @@settings.include?(key.to_s)
    @@settings[key.to_s]
  end

end