Spinebox

A ready to use spine.js rack skeleton builder with development server, routes, config and precompile support.

• Ideal for single or few page applications
• Fully setup, ready to go spine.js environment
• Develop in coffee-script and sass with fantastic sprockets asset serving
• Use generators and scaffolding just like with rails
• Compile assets and serve the whole app completely static
• Use partials and helpers in your view just like in rails
• Compilation only updates actually changed files. This is a premise for delta deployment.

Installation

$ gem install spinebox

Usage

Create your javascript app or HTML files just as you’re used to it.

Create New Project

# Create new project an start developing
$ spinebox new blog
$ cd blog
$ spinebox server
$ open http://localhost:3000/index.html

Use Partials and Helpers

Partials are prefixed with a _ to declare them a partial. So you can create a _navigation.html.erb and use it, e.g. in the index.html.erb with:

<%= render :partial => "index.html" %>

Helpers are in the helper folder and included by default in any view. So if you want to create special links, etc. that you reuse throughout your project simply create a method named link_to in the helper, any any view and partial will have it accessible.

Generate models, views and controllers

# Generate a model view and a controller
$ spinebox generate model post title author body
$ spinebox generate controller posts
$ spinebox generate view post

Scaffold

# Or scaffold all three of them
$ spinebox generate scaffold post title author body

Compile project

# Compile project for static serving
$ spinebox compile

Contributing

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