Highgroove Generator ATLRUG Presentation

Quick overview of the highgroove generator gem.

Transcript

1. Highgroove Generator Aubrey Rhodes
2. Who am i? Developer @ Highgroove ~ 5 Years building webapps Java & .NET before Ruby
3. Most Importantly I Start New Rails Projects On a Regular Basis
4. I End Up Using a Similar Set of Tools to Follow Best Practices in Each Project
5. Best Practices Integration and Unit Tests
6. Best Practices Measure Test Coverage
7. Best Practices Debugging Tools
8. Best Practices Factories to Create Mock Data (not for unit tests!)
9. Best Practices Templating Engine That’s Not ERB
10. Best Practices Use The Same Datastore in Development as Production (not sqlite)
11. Best Practices Some Sort of Hosting That’s Not My Laptop
12. New Rails Projects Are Easy...
13. rails new myapp
15. I Want Postgres
16. rails new myapp -d postgresql
18. I don’t want testunit
19. rails new myapp -T -d postgresql
21. I Need to: Cleanup generated files Add a Homepage Setup hosting Add Gems Setup GIT
22. This Isn’t Hard But It’s a Full Day of Work
23. Soo.... I Built a Tool
24. gem install highgroove-generator
25. highgroove new myapp
26. Now I have a Rails app With:
27. Rails 3.2
28. RVM Gemset
29. Git Repo
30. Postgres
31. FactoryGirl
32. Forgery
33. Capybara- Webkit
34. Simplecov
35. RSpec
36. Slim
37. A Brand New Heroku App
38. This Saves ME a Day of work
39. This forces me to use the right tools
40. WHat’s next?
41. Support for Vagrant Boxes
42. Chef Provisioning
43. Support for more hosts
44. Twitter Bootstrap
45. User Auth
46. Open Source On Github https://github.com/highgroove/ highgroove-generator
47. Talks on Tools http://vimeo.com/highgroove
48. Questions?