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Collection of Rails development boosting frameworks

Dominik Schöler
March 08, 2014Software engineer at makandra GmbH

Development environment setup

Rails Composer Show archive.org snapshot
: Basically a comprehensive Rails Template. Prepares your development environment and lets you select web server, template engine, unit and integration testing frameworks and more.

Generate an app in minutes using an application template. With all the options you want!

Code generators

Illustration online protection

Rails Long Term Support

Rails LTS provides security patches for old versions of Ruby on Rails (2.3, 3.2, 4.2 and 5.2)

  • Prevents you from data breaches and liability risks
  • Upgrade at your own pace
  • Works with modern Rubies
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Rails Bricks Show archive.org snapshot
: A command line wizard. Once you get it running, it creates sleek applications.

RailsBricks enables you to create Rails apps much faster by automating mundane setup tasks and configuring useful common gems for you.

Hobo Show archive.org snapshot
: A command line app generation wizard like Rails Bricks. Claims to be more flexible than all others. Has been around since 2006!

Rails Generators Show archive.org snapshot and Templates Show archive.org snapshot

Not a wizard, but a toolbox. Extensible and flexible.

nifty-generators Show archive.org snapshot
: A collection of Rails generator scripts for scaffolding, layout files, authentication, and more. Last commit a year ago :|

prelang Show archive.org snapshot
: Closed-source, but looks very promising. Currently ('14) in alpha.

On-the-fly Generators

ActiveScaffold Show archive.org snapshot
: CRUD generator. Does not generate views, but encapsulates them inside the gem.

ActiveScaffold provides a quick and powerful user interfaces for CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations for Rails applications. It offers additonal features including searching, pagination & layout control.

rails_admin Show archive.org snapshot
: An admin interface that generates itself from the models it finds in your app. It is a Rails engine, meaning it won't generate files for you, but rather build pages per-request.

RailsAdmin is a Rails engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing your data.

Posted by Dominik Schöler to makandra dev (2014-03-08 21:31)