Rails-starter

A framework for a new rails 4.2.0/ruby 2.2 project for setting up the development environment.

Setup

1. Make sure you have an RAILS_ENV environment variable set on your machine and have it set to 'development'.

2. Install your packages by running bundle install.

3. Make sure you will need to have Mysql installed.

4. Create the database with bundle exec rake db:create

5. You can override any environment variables such as the mysql port with a dotenv file if you wish. Read more

Development

1. Start your mysql server

2. use bundle exec rails s to run the web server.

Testing:

Tests are written using rspec. You can run tests with the following:

bundle exec rspec

See https://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails for the basics.