Bulldozer
¶ ↑
Bulldozer
is the base Rails application used at seasoned.
Installation¶ ↑
First install the bulldozer gem:
gem install bulldozer
Then run:
bulldozer projectname
This will create a Rails app in projectname
using the latest version of Rails.
Associated services¶ ↑
-
Enable Circle CI Continuous Integration
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Enable GitHub auto deploys to Heroku staging and review apps.
Gemfile¶ ↑
To see the latest and greatest gems, look at Bulldozer' Gemfile, which will be appended to the default generated projectname/Gemfile.
It includes application gems like:
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Autoprefixer Rails for CSS vendor prefixes
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Bourbon for Sass mixins
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Bitters for scaffold application styles
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Delayed Job for background processing
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High Voltage for static pages
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Honeybadger for exception notification
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Neat for semantic grids
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Normalize for resetting browser styles
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Postgres for access to the Postgres database
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Rack Canonical Host to ensure all requests are served from the same domain
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Rack Timeout to abort requests that are taking too long
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Recipient Interceptor to avoid accidentally sending emails to real people from staging
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Simple Form for form markup and style
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Skylight for monitoring performance
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Title for storing titles in translations
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Puma to serve HTTP requests
And development gems like:
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Dotenv for loading environment variables
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Pry Rails for interactively exploring objects
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ByeBug for interactively debugging behavior
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Bullet for help to kill N+1 queries and unused eager loading
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Bundler Audit for scanning the Gemfile for insecure dependencies based on published CVEs
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Spring for fast Rails actions via pre-loading
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Web Console for better debugging via in-browser IRB consoles.
And testing gems like:
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Capybara and Google Chromedriver integration testing
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Factory Bot for test data
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Formulaic for integration testing HTML forms
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RSpec for unit testing
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RSpec Mocks for stubbing and spying
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Shoulda Matchers for common RSpec matchers
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Timecop for testing time
Other goodies¶ ↑
Bulldozer
also comes with:
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The {
./bin/setup
} convention for new developer setup -
The
./bin/deploy
convention for deploying to Heroku -
Rails' flashes set up and in application layout
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A few nice time formats set up for localization
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Rack::Deflater
to compress responses with Gzip -
An automatically-created
SECRET_KEY_BASE
environment variable in all environments -
Configuration for CircleCI Continuous Integration (tests)
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Configuration for Hound Continuous Integration (style)
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The analytics adapter Segment (and therefore config for Google Analytics, Intercom, Facebook Ads, Twitter Ads, etc.)
Heroku¶ ↑
You can optionally create Heroku staging and production apps:
bulldozer app --heroku true
This:
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Creates a staging and production Heroku app
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Sets them as
staging
andproduction
Git remotes -
Configures staging with
HONEYBADGER_ENV
environment variable set tostaging
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Creates a Heroku Pipeline for review apps
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Schedules automated backups for 10AM UTC for both
staging
andproduction
You can optionally specify alternate Heroku flags:
bulldozer app \ --heroku true \ --heroku-flags "--region eu --addons sendgrid,ssl"
See all possible Heroku flags:
heroku help create
Git¶ ↑
This will initialize a new git repository for your Rails app. You can bypass this with the --skip-git
option:
bulldozer app --skip-git true
GitHub¶ ↑
You can optionally create a GitHub repository for the suspended Rails app. It requires that you have Hub on your system:
curl https://hub.github.com/standalone -sLo ~/bin/hub && chmod +x ~/bin/hub bulldozer app --github organization/project
This has the same effect as running:
hub create organization/project
Spring¶ ↑
Bulldozer
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.
Dependencies¶ ↑
Bulldozer
requires the latest version of Ruby.
Some gems included in Bulldozer
have native extensions. You should have GCC installed on your machine before generating an app with Bulldozer
.
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 Google Chromedriver for full-stack JavaScript integration testing. It requires Google Chrome or Chromium.
PostgreSQL needs to be installed and running for the db:create
rake task.
Issues¶ ↑
If you have problems, please create a GitHub Issue.
Contributing¶ ↑
See CONTRIBUTING.md.
Thank you, contributors!
License¶ ↑
Bulldozer
is Copyright © 2008-2017 seasoned. It is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the LICENSE file.
About seasoned¶ ↑
Bulldozer
is maintained and funded by seasoned, inc. The names and logos for seasoned are trademarks of seasoned, inc.
We love open source software! See our other projects. We are available for hire.