pat / nozomi

Nozomi is the fastest way to get going in Rails 3 with templates. The Nozomi Shinkansen or Japanese Bullet Train is the fastest train in the world.

Pat's Fork Notes:

• Using Bundler to manage gem dependencies
• Using Clamp for CLI structure
• -d for selecting database, passed directly through to Rails
• Templates are now separated into small, distinct files
• -i for Interactive mode, user can choose any of the provided mini-templates

Nozomi: Faster Rails templating

My stack for new rails 3 projects.

Each change is committed to git in a single commit, so you can cherry pick the bits you like. Alternatively feel free to use the template as a base for your own version.

rspec

I don't remember the last time I used Test::Unit, does anybody actually use it anymore?

jquery

jQuery is today's default JS framework of choice

haml

I cringe when I see ERB, if your designer doesn't understand Haml, perhaps it's time for a new designer

sass

Now that SCSS is a superset of CSS there should be no arguments here

compass

Useful for its library of CSS3 mixins and other useful utility functions, and a sprite builder called lemonade

grid-coordinates

Because blueprint and other compass css frameworks are too heavyweight

decent_exposure

For fashion-model thin controllers, so skinny they're barely there. (Did you know that Nozomi is also a Japanese fashion model?)

rspec-integration

Because cucumber is pretty heavyweight and somewhat awkward compared to plain old rspec, (admit it non-devs rarely read or write your stories anyway)

capybara

The best interface for driving any kind of integration specs with Selenium, Webrat, etc

jammit

There's no sense in sending more down the wire than you absolutely have to.

How to contribute

• Fork the project.
• Make your feature addition or bug fix.
• Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
• Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
• Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2010 Josh Price. See LICENSE for details.