Zero to a Fully Git Enabled Rails App in the time it takes to drink an espresso
updated: now uses the real Rails git master at github, now that its live.
So you want to set up a fresh Rails app in a fresh git repo, with proper ignores setup, with vendor/rails using a git submodule (which enables switching to any Rails branch or tag locally)? This isn’t rocket science or anything, but I figured I’d post it to see what things could be done better.
Assumptions
- You have a working, recent version of git installed.
- You have the git-rails gem installed.
- You have the bash aliases at the bottom of the post.
rails app_name
cd app_name
git-rails init
gca -m ‘initial commit’
git submodule add git://github.com/rails/rails.git vendor/rails
# bring in rails from github
git submodule init
# Submodule ‘vendor/rails’ (git://github.com/rails/rails.git) registered for path ‘vendor/rails’
git submodule update
gca -m ‘bring in rails via submodule’
# Created commit 3b67dee: bring in rails via submodule
# 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
# create mode 100644 .gitmodules
# create mode 160000 vendor/rails
cd vendor/rails
gba # pick branch of Rails you wanna use
git co BRANCH # where BRANCH is the specific branch you want, unless you want the default of going against edge
You’re done!
Here’s those aliases you need:
alias g=’git’
alias gb=’git branch’
alias gba=’git branch -a’
alias gc=’git commit -v’
alias gca=’git commit -v -a’
alias gd=’git diff | mate’
alias gl=’git pull’
alias gp=’git push’
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