TinyRails

Scaffold for tiny Rails apps based on José Valim's Rails Lightweight Stack code

Installation

Install it using:

$ gem install tiny-rails

WTF?! Why would I use this?

Although the generated application code could be used on a production server, the idea is to try to give you a really basic application to try out new Rails gems, create spikes and to provide an isolated small Rails environment for reproducing bugs to support bug reports.

You could also use this to create a single page application with Rails features like code reloading and the asset pipeline without having to set up a Sinatra application from the ground app.

Usage

$ tiny-rails new tiny-app
      create
      create  .gitignore
      create  Gemfile
      create  boot.rb
      create  tiny_rails_controller.rb
      create  index.html.erb
      create  server
      create  config.ru
       chmod  server

This will give you a pretty basic application that you can run with rackup or you preferred server. It even supports code reloading for the generated controller, models and mailers!

You can also fire up a console to play around with the generated app running tiny-rails console. If you want to use Pry, you can just add the pry-rails gem to your Gemfile.

Addons

You can provide the -a parameter when creating new apllications to enable a list of "addons" on the generated app. For example:

$ tiny-rails new tiny-app -a activerecord
         ...
       apply  /path/to/tiny-rails/gem/addons/activerecord.rb
     gemfile    activerecord (~> 3.2)
     gemfile    sqlite3
      create    models.rb
      insert    tiny_rails_controller.rb
      insert    boot.rb
      create    migrate
       chmod    migrate
      append    .gitignore

Or you can run tiny-rails add [list of addons] from a generated application folder.

Here's a list of the addons bundled with the gem:

• activerecord
• coffeescript
• jquery
• client_side_validations
• email

Building your own addon

The API for writing addon scripts are based on Rails' application templates (with a smaller API), please have a look at the bundled addons, TinyRails::Actions and Thor::Actions modules to find out whats supported.

As with Rails' application templates, you can use remote addon scripts, just pass in the URL as an argument to tiny-rails new or tiny-rails add.

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request