Potassium
A Rails application generator from Platanus, inspired by Suspenders.
Installation
You have to install Potassium globally:
$ gem install potassium
Usage
Starting a new project from scratch
Use the potassium create
command to create a new project:
$ potassium create <project-name>
It's important to note that it will perform a version check before running to ensure that you're using the latest potassium. Also, if you feel that it's too slow, you may need to update rubygems:
gem update --system
.
Adding recipes to an existing project
Use the potassium install
command to add a recipe to a project:
$ potassium install devise
You can force an already installed recipe by passing the --force
argument
$ potassium install devise --force
You can run the command on its own to view all the available recipes and select one:
$ potassium install
What's inside Potassium?
Potassium Rails apps includes the following gems and technologies:
- Ruby Set the project ruby version based on http://ruby.platan.us/latest
- dotenv load environmental variables in development
- Yarn for frontend assets packages.
- EditorConfig for keeping all our editor configurations the same.
- pry and pry-byebug for a less painful debugging experience.
- RSpec for unit and integration testing.
- FactoryGirl for test factories.
- Guard for continuous testing and other watch-related tasks.
- AWS-SDK for file uploads, sdks, etc and because we use AWS.
- Puma to serve HTTP requests
- Rack Timeout to abort requests that are taking too long
- Tzinfo-Data for update timezone information
- Faker for create development data
The following optional integrations are added too:
- PostgreSQL or MySQL for the database.
- Devise for authentication.
- ActiveAdmin for admin interfaces.
- ActiveAdminAddons for some help with ActiveAdmin.
- Pundit for role-based authorization.
- DelayedJob to execute longer tasks in the background.]
- Sidekiq a simple, efficient background processing for Ruby.
- Sidekiq-scheduler to run scheduled processes
- Mailing configuration for AWS SES and Sendgrid with recipient interceptor support
- Sentry to monitor exceptions and errors
- Vue.js or Angular 2 for frontend development
A few more things are added to the project:
- A low database connection pool limit
- Setup continuous integration in CircleCI to run tests.
- Create the github repository for the project (it used
hub
under the hood) - A
bin/setup
script to setup things on a newly cloned project - A
bin/cibuild
script to run continuous integration build on CI - A
db:fake_data:load
rake task to load fake data for development
API support
The optional API support includes:
- Responders for dry-ing our api controllers.
- Versionist for some flexible api versioning.
- ActiveModel::Serializers for record serialization.
- Simple Token Authentication for stateless API authentication.
Heroku
When you choose to deploy to heroku a few extra things are added for the project.
- Adds the Rails Stdout Logging gem to configure the app to log to standard out, which is how Heroku's logging works.
- Adds a Procfile to define the processes to run in heroku
- Setup continuous integration using docker and herokuish to maintain better parity between testing and production environments
- Adds a
.buildpacks
file with the default buildpacks to use. It use the following buildpacks:
index | buildpack | description |
---|---|---|
1. | nodejs | to support javascript package management with yarn and webpack based asset compiling |
2. | ruby-version | to support the use of .ruby-version file to instruct heroku which ruby version to use |
3. | ruby | the base buildpack to run ruby applications |
4. | ruby-deploy-tasks | to run rake task after the deployment is complete, for example db:migrate |
Also the heroku applications are created
- Creates a
staging
andproduction
applications - Creates a pipeline and assign the above application to the
staging
andproduction
stages. - Setup initial configuration variables
- Set the application buildpack to the multi-buildpack
- Set deploy-tasks buildpack is setup to run
rake db:migrate
after each deploy
You'll need to manually
- Connect the pipeline with the github repository
- Assign a branch to each stage for auto deployments
- Enable deploy after CI pass
Continuous Integration
In order to CicleCI start building the project on each push you need tell circle ci. Go to https://circleci.com/add-projects, choose the repository from the list and hit Build Project
Hound CI
In order to Hound start checking your project's PRs you need enable that repository. Go to https://monkeyci.platan.us, choose the repository from the list and hit Activate
Development Tools
Creating a new Test project from scratch
This is useful when you are adding new recipes to Potassium, and you want to use the potassium create
command, to check the new functionality without pain.
To achieve this you need to run, In the Potassium's root path, the bin/potassium_test create
instead of potassium create
command.
This command, will do the same as potassium create
but first:
- Will drop any existent database of the test app.
- Will remove the directory containing a previous version of the test app.
It's important to remember that bin/potassium_test create
:
- Does not receive an
app_path
param. It always creates the test project inside/tmp/dummy_app
- Can receive the same options as
potassium create
. - Runs with options with a default value. This is to avoid the "asking part" of the creation process. You need to enable what you want to test like this:
$ bin/potassium_test create --clockwork
Contributing
If you want to add functionality please go to the contributing
Credits
Thank you contributors!
potassium is maintained by platanus.
License
Potassium is © 2014 platanus, spa. It is free software and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the LICENSE file.