[rspec-users] Rails project as a template for other projects (off topic)

[Nick Hoffman]

On 2008-12-04, at 13:34, Andrew Premdas wrote:
> This is of topic but I have a feeling I might get some useful advice  
> here - hope you don't mind
>
> I've created a rails project that I want to use as a basis for other  
> rails project. I was wondering if anyone had any tips on workflow  
> for doing this sort of thing, especially dealing with updating  
> projects as the base project gets improved.
>
> My base project might be of interest to people here, its basically
>
> Vanilla Rails project with added rspec, cucumber, haml, compass,  
> object_daddy, webrat and restful-authentication (RA). Then the RA  
> stories have been replaced with features which are specifically  
> designed to be simple enough that I can understand them with simple  
> steps as well. The RA forms have been hamlized and made to work  
> properly with webrat (have proper labels) and finally a couple of  
> tweaks have been added so you can login with email (optional) and  
> the remember_me stuff works.
>
> I'm using GIT for SCM
>
> Anyhow any ideas ?
>
> Cheers
>
> Andrew

Hi Andrew. This doesn't have to do with one's workflow, but I highly  
recommend taking a look at Authlogic. It's an incredible  
authentication system, and IMO, is much better than restful- 
authentication.

As for creating a customised base Rails project, check out Suprails (http://github.com/listrophy/suprails 
) and rg (http://github.com/jeremymcanally/rg/).

Cheers,
Nick