I just read the article by Pratik Naik from the Rails Core Team regarding Rails Templates.
Have you ever wished you could start out your Rails application with all of your gems installed and all of your standard setup items completed? Well, wait no longer. You can now do it with Rails Templates. Pratik covered it pretty well, so I’m not going to repeat what he’s done. Rather, I’m going to share a template of my own and explain why I included what I did.
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action, annotate_models, authentication, controllers, create, cucumber, daemons, gems, generator, git, github, plugins, Pratik Naik, Rails, rails core, rake, rspec, rspec-rails, Ruby, Ruby on Rails
One problem that seems to face people when they’re attempting to move their applications into production is the best way to manage deployment of their application. This is where tools like capistrano comes in.
Capistrano was written by Jamis Buck of 37signals. In a lot of ways it has become the defacto way to deploy Ruby on Rails applications. It has also had tools like webistrano build on top of it to provide a graphical interface to the command line tool.
To get started, you need to install the capistrano gem:
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