Suspenders—as a reminder, Suspenders is our base Rails project that can be easily upgraded—has some issues. Specifically, two: you have to pull down all of the git repo in order to start a project, which itself requires pulling down all of the git repo again, and; Suspenders itself is untested.
The solution to these problems are fairly straight-forward so I went ahead and did it. Presenting, today, the Suspenders gem!
gem install suspenders
Installing the gem will give you the suspenders command. I have grandiose
plans for this command-line utility but for now you can create a new project:
suspenders create carbon_dating
You can upgrade a Suspenders-based project at any time, as usual:
rake git:[pull:suspenders](http://meatexplosion.com/awesome/thats-the-joke.jpg)
As a reminder Suspenders will give you:
- clearance
- cucumber
- factory_bot
- fakeweb
- formtastic
- hoptoad_notifier
- jferris-mocha (testspies)
- paperclip
- shoulda
- timecop
- webrat
- will_paginate
- high_voltage
- limerick_rake
- backtrace silencers
- HTTP and SMTP exceptions
test/mocks- noisy
attr_accessible lib/extentions- date and time formats
To run the new Suspenders test suite you will need the git repo for the gem:
git clone git@github.com:thoughtbot/suspenders.git
Then go in and run rake. This will build a new project using Suspenders, set
up the last touches (clearance stuff, mostly), and make sure that the project
passes.
