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Rails Application Templates / Generators for Marionette

After developing conventions for working with Backbone/Marionette, I wrote my own rails generators and application template. These remove a lot of unnecessary files, and sets up sensible defaults for working with Backbone/Marionette projects.

Using the Application Template

The marionette-template.rb is an application template used when creating a new rails application. To use this application template, in the terminal type:

rails new APPNAME -m https://raw.github.com/brian-mann/rails-generators/master/marionette-template.rb

What this template does

Miscellaneous File Cleanup

• Removes default app/assets/images/rails.png image
• Removes default public/index.html file
• Renames README.rdoc to README.md

File Permissions

• chmod's log directory to 0777
• TODO: add db directory

Routing

• Sets default route to: application#index

App Views

• Creates app/views/application directory
• Creates app/views/application/index.html.erb file

App Stylesheets

• Creates app/assets/stylesheets/apps directory
• Creates app/assets/stylesheets/app/_base.css.scss file
• Renames app/assets/stylesheets/application.css to application.css.scss
• Removes require self and require tree . from application.css.scss file
• Imports twitter/bootstrap and apps/_base SCSS files

APP Javascripts

• Removes jquery_ujs and require_tree . from app/assets/javascripts/application.js file

Included Gems

• thin
• rabl
• oj
• gon
• js-routes
• eco
• compass-rails
• bootstrap-sass-rails

TODO:

• Document additional template actions
• Document entire use of all the generators