Simple Sinatra MVC Template

What's included

Sprockets, HAML, SASS, PostgreSQL gem (pg), coffee-script and more

$ git clone --depth 1 git://github.com/bridgeutopia/simple-sinatra-mvc.git myapp
$ rm -r myapp/.git && rm myapp/README.md

Use bundler to install gems

bundle install

Start the app

$ rackup

Unit and acceptance tests

Ruby 1.9 includes minitest so it just makes test to use minitest instead of any other framework. It works and it is simple. Use:

$ rake test

For acceptance tests, some example is also provided. Use:

cucumber or rake features should work

Configuration

$ mv config/database.yml.example config/database.yml 

Update database.yml

By default, we use PostgreSQL.

You may have to update config.ru as needed.

The Rakefile may require some updates for sprockets. As you add more assets, you would need to precompile those for production.

Rake Tasks

$ rake -T

rake assets:compile # Pre-compile assets

rake db:create # create the database

rake db:create_migration # create an ActiveRecord migration in ./db/migrate

rake db:migrate # migrate your database

rake features # Run Cucumber features

rake test # Run tests

To create a database for a specific environment, do:

$ rake db:create RACK_ENV=production 

The default environment is "development"

To create a migration file called "create_pages", do:

$ rake db:create_migration NAME=create_pages

To do migration:

$ rake db:migrate RACK_ENV=production 

The default is development so this should just work:

$ rake db:migrate

TO DO

1. Write more tasks for active record

2. Add more helpers