Bort is a base Rails application that makes creating new projects easier and faster. Bort is developed and maintained by Fudge Studios, Jim Neath and Matt Hall
This Rails 2.3 fork is by Jay McGavren
- Download and unzip Bort
- Edit the database.yml and the settings.yml files
- Change the default password in the bort migration
- Edit the REST_AUTH_SITE_KEY in each of the environment files
- Rake db:migrate
- Have a brew and celebrate
This fork of Bort has had some of its default plugins dropped, new ones added, and most of the rest updated.
RESTful Authentication has been replaced with Authlogic. A few controllers are already set up as in the Authlogic examples.
Bort now comes with Role Requirement by Tim Harper. A default
admin role is predefined along with a default admin user. See the migrations for the admin login details.
Bort, as of 0.3, has Open ID. Rejoice!
We use will_paginate in pretty much every project we use, so Bort comes with it pre-installed.
You should be testing your code, so Bort comes with Rspec and Rspec-rails already installed so you’re
ready to roll.
You should also be integration testing your code. Cucumber has been added.
Factories make object creation for use in specs less painful and more versatile.
You don’t want your applications to crash and burn so Exception Notifier is already installed to let
you know when everything goes to shit.
Packages up your css/javascript so you’re not sending 143 files down to the user at the same time. Reduces
load times and saves you bandwidth.
The routes for Authlogic are already sorted for you.
There is a settings.yml file that contains site-wide stuff. The site name, url and admin email are all used
in the RESTful Auth mailers, so you don’t need to worry about editing them.
The database.yml defaults to sqlite3 but also contains the settings for MySQL in comments so you can switch
over easily.
Bort comes ready to rock capistrano. The recipe that is setup is based on using git and passenger. It’s ready
to go with multistage deployments. It deploys to the production config by default, so if you don’t need it
you can ignore it. Just update config/deploy/production.rb with your deployment settings.
More info on capistrano-ext/multistage deployments can be found here: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2007/7/23/capistrano-multistage
- password and password_confirmation are set up to be filtered
- there is a default application layout file
- a page title helper has been added
- index.html is already deleted
- rails.png is already deleted
- a few changes have been made to the default views
- a default css file with blank selectors for common rails elements
Bort put together by people at Fudge
This fork by Jay McGavren