TinyRails

Scaffold for tiny Rails apps based on José Valim's Rails Lightweight Stack code.

DEPRECATED

I'm no longer maintaing this and if you are looking into a "lightweight Rails stack" these days you probably want to use rails-api

Installation

Install it using:

$ gem install tiny-rails

WTF?! Why would I use this?

Although the generated application code could be used on a production server, the idea is to try to give you a really basic application to try out new Rails gems, create spikes and to provide an isolated small Rails environment for reproducing bugs to support bug reports and / or to demo your Rails engine.

You could also use this to create a single page application with Rails features like code reloading and the asset pipeline without having to set up a Sinatra application from the ground app.

Usage

$ tiny-rails new tiny-app
      create
      create  .gitignore
      create  Gemfile
      create  boot.rb
      create  tiny_rails_controller.rb
      create  index.html.erb
      create  server
      create  config.ru
       chmod  server

This will give you a pretty basic application that you can run with rackup or you preferred server. It even supports code reloading for the generated controller, models and mailers!

You can also fire up a console to play around with the generated app running tiny-rails console. If you want to use Pry, you can just add the pry-rails gem to your Gemfile.

Addons

You can provide the -a parameter when creating new apllications to enable a list of "addons" on the generated app. For example:

$ tiny-rails new tiny-app -a activerecord
         ...
       apply  /path/to/tiny-rails/gem/addons/activerecord.rb
     gemfile    activerecord (~> 3.2)
     gemfile    sqlite3
      create    models.rb
      insert    tiny_rails_controller.rb
      insert    boot.rb
      create    migrate
       chmod    migrate
      append    .gitignore

Or you can run tiny-rails add [list of addons] from a generated application folder.

Here's a list of the addons bundled with the gem:

• activerecord
• coffeescript
• jquery
• client_side_validations
• email

Building your own addon

The API for writing addon scripts are based on Rails' application templates (with a smaller API), please have a look at the bundled addons, TinyRails::Actions and Thor::Actions modules to find out whats supported.

As with Rails' application templates, you can use remote addon scripts, just pass in the URL as an argument to tiny-rails new or tiny-rails add.

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request