RailsBricks

Create Rails apps. Faster.

Title: RailsBricks
Version: 3.7.0
Author: Nico Schuele (www.nicoschuele.com)
Github: https://github.com/nicoschuele/railsbricks
Twitter: @nicoschuele

Not Maintained Anymore!

Please note that RailsBricks is currently not maintained and will likely not be upgraded to use Rails 5+. I leave it here for legacy purpose. If you want to take over, contact me.

Features

replaces the rails new command with rbricks -n
includes useful gems and sets them up for you
offers different UI choices for your web app
creates and configures a Devise authentication scheme
adds the necessary resources for a blog, contact form, and more
builds an admin zone
configures your mailers
inits local and remote git repositories
...and much more to boost your productivity!

Prerequisites

In order to use RailsBricks, you need the following:

A nix-based OS. That can be any flavour of Linux or OS X
Ruby (version 2.0+)
Some knowledge of Rails (!)

What about Windows?

RailsBricks doesn't run out of the box on Windows. You will first need to install the DevKit as well as the tzinfo-data gem.

Ruby support

RailsBricks generates Rails apps with support for the current major Ruby release (currently, 2.0.0) + the current point release and the previous one, for example 2.2.2 & 2.2.3. If you need to use another version of Ruby, you will have to manually edit the Gemfile after the app gets created and update the following line with your chosen version number:

ruby '2.1.5'

Install

Like any other gem, you simply issue gem install railsbricks

Notice: If you still have RailsBricks 1.x installed, remove it manually before installing RailsBricks 3.x

Usage

To create a new app, just type rbricks --new and follow the wizard.

There's a great RailsBricks tutorial available on SitePoint if you want to know more: sitepoint.com/railsbricks-start-faster-rails.

Contribute

RailsBricks is currently not maintained and not accepting pull requests anymore. If you want to take over, contact me.

Acknowledgements

Nikkau, for showing me how to segregate gems without using RVM
Joelle Gobbo, for the elegant snippet used to generate a valid Rails app name
Jim Meyer, for forking RailsBricks and creating an alternative version I also use
David Hsu, for adding a new Brick: Devise authentication using only an email address
the authors of the many gems used by RailsBricks
the Geneva.rb Meetup Group for the beer!
David Camarena for producing a fork with support for MySQL
Felix Wolfsteller for doing a bit of cleanup
everyone who emailed me, gave feedback, opened an issue on Github, submitted a pull request, tweeted, etc. I truly love the Rails community.