Bort is an awesome base Rails app, which allows you to get into real action without wasting your time on setting up the most common and boring stuff. It comes with RESTful Authentication, OpenID support, Capistrano Mutli-stage deployments and many other essential plugins, thus lifting good work load. I first got to use Bort when developing MyConf for Rails Rumble, where agility mattered to the maximum. Since, I felt it would be ideal to use Bort as the cookie cutter for my future Rails apps as well. However, I felt there needs to be several changes to make it more ideal for my workflow. Hence, I forked Bort and came up with Extended-Bort!
What are the changes?
- Git Submodules are used to keep Rails and other plugins updated.
- Included Rails 2.2.0 with tha app
- Added annotate-models and make_resourceful plugins
- Added Action Mailer initializer and SMTP settings for production mode
- Uses admin email specified in settings.yml in exception notifier
- Replaced rSpec story runner with new Cucumber Scenario Framework (webrat and cucumber plguins are included)
- Replaced Prototype js with jQuery
- Replaced asset_packager with bundle_fu for bundling assets
- Changed Stylesheets by adding an initial stylesheet, application stylesheet and Hartija CSS print stylesheet
Want to Use?
If you feel like using Extended-Bort, follow these steps:
git clone git://github.com/laktek/extended-bort.git
git submodule init
git submodule update
Edit the database.yml and the settings.yml files
Rake db:migrate
Change the session key in config/environment.rb and REST_AUTH_SITE_KEY in environments config (you can generate keys using rake:secret)
Have a brew and celebrate (from original Bort guys, but you can still do it ;) )