Hoppinders is the base Rails application used at Hoppinger.

First install the hoppinders gem:

gem install hoppinders

Then run:

hoppinders projectname

This will create a Rails app in projectname using the latest version of Rails.

To see the latest and greatest gems, look at Hoppinders' Gemfile, which will be appended to the default generated projectname/Gemfile.

It includes application gems like:

• Autoprefixer Rails for CSS vendor prefixes
• Bourbon for Sass mixins
• Delayed Job for background processing
• Flutie for page_title and body_class view helpers
• jQuery Rails for jQuery
• Neat for semantic grids
• New Relic RPM for monitoring performance
• Normalize for resetting browser styles
• Postgres for access to the Postgres database
• Rack Canonical Host to ensure all requests are served from the same domain
• Rack Timeout to abort requests that are taking too long
• Recipient Interceptor to avoid accidentally sending emails to real people from staging
• Refills for “copy-paste” components and patterns based on Bourbon, Neat and Bitters
• Simple Form for form markup and style
• Title for storing titles in translations
• Unicorn to serve HTTP requests

And development gems like:

• Dotenv for loading environment variables
• Pry Rails for interactively exploring objects
• ByeBug for interactively debugging behavior
• Bullet for help to kill N+1 queries and unused eager loading
• Bundler Audit for scanning the Gemfile for insecure dependencies based on published CVEs
• Spring for fast Rails actions via pre-loading
• Web Console for better debugging via in-browser IRB consoles.
• Quiet Assets for muting assets pipeline log messages

And testing gems like:

• Capybara and Capybara Webkit for integration testing
• Factory Girl for test data
• Formulaic for integration testing HTML forms
• RSpec for unit testing
• RSpec Mocks for stubbing and spying
• Shoulda Matchers for common RSpec matchers
• Timecop for testing time

Hoppinders also comes with:

• The [./bin/setup][setup] convention for new developer setup
• The ./bin/deploy convention for deploying to Heroku
• Rails' flashes set up and in application layout
• A few nice time formats set up for localization
• Rack::Deflater to [compress responses with Gzip][compress]
• A [low database connection pool limit][pool]
• [Safe binstubs][binstub]
• [t() and l() in specs without prefixing with I18n][i18n]
• An automatically-created SECRET_KEY_BASE environment variable in all environments

This will initialize a new git repository for your Rails app. You can bypass this with the --skip-git option:

hoppinders app --skip-git true

You can optionally create a GitHub repository for the suspended Rails app. It requires that you have Hub on your system:

curl http://hub.github.com/standalone -sLo ~/bin/hub && chmod +x ~/bin/hub
hoppinders app --github organization/project

This has the same effect as running:

hub create organization/project

Hoppinders uses spring by default. It makes Rails applications load faster, but it might introduce confusing issues around stale code not being refreshed. If you think your application is running old code, run spring stop. And if you'd rather not use spring, add DISABLE_SPRING=1 to your login file.

Hoppinders requires the latest version of Ruby.

Some gems included in Hoppinders have native extensions. You should have GCC installed on your machine before generating an app with Hoppinders.

Use OS X GCC Installer for Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6).

Use Command Line Tools for XCode for Lion (OS X 10.7) or Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8).

We use Capybara Webkit for full-stack JavaScript integration testing. It requires QT. Instructions for installing QT are here.

PostgreSQL needs to be installed and running for the db:create rake task.