Rails Frontend

Build a static frontend app with rails.

Why ?

This was built after experiencing some frustrations with a 400 lines Gruntfile. I wanted a framework to build static website with the following requirements:

It appears Rails has most of this, a lot of goodies and it’s very mature. A few parts were missing:

I gave a talk about this at Paris.rb and will link to the slides ASAP.

Requirements

bower: To install it please go to the bower homepage.

wget: To install:

Overview

To generate a new rails-frontend app:

gem install rails-frontend
rails-frontend new webapp

To launch a development server with LiveReload:

guard start

To build the static website:

rake dist

Your website, including all assets will be copied in dist/.

You should know

This is a prototype coded for a talk I gave at paris.rb. If you’re ~crazy~ adventurous enough to test this, please take the tiem to give me some feedback.

Contributing to rails-frontend

Copyright © 2014 Michael Bensoussan. See LICENSE.txt for further details.