One of my common frustrations when setting up a Rails app is that I’ll do “rails new”, set up the application, and then get a little way in before remembering that I either wanted to disable turbolinks, or choose a different database, or whatever the option may be. Obviously you can append the optio…

Great summary, Betsy. I’d like to throw my support behind both an interactive option and a minimal option, as well as better tooling and documentation for adding things you’ve said no to after the fact. While some might think “the list of things installed by default is insane”, it represents my hone…

I did a POC about that few months ago. :slight_smile: https://github.com/rails/rails/compare/master...kassio:rails-new-interactive

I’m not in love with the idea of an interactive composer, but I can say that I’m never really looking forward to running rails new because I know I’ll want to customize a lot of defaults. (Edit: I could be convinced though. The one from Vue-cli looks pretty good when I think about it.) Fun thing, I…

Mega big +1 on this — a (possibly optional) interactive rails new would be truly fabulous, and perhaps isn’t a huge lift if it’s just choosing the options which are already available.

Thanks for sharing this! I’m curious if you know of or considered/rejected the --template argument of rails new, which allows using Rails generator methods to automate these steps. Here’s mine: https://github.com/bensheldon/rails_new/blob/master/rails_template.rb I’m in favor of interactive mode b…

Being able to turn frameworks on and off more easily would be amazing. Not just with rails new --skip methods but later too, during upgrades (app:update), or just because of changing requirements. Replacing require 'rails/all' with the full list by default. And having some kind of rails ungenerate …

Here’s the rails new command I ran to start our last project: rails new my_app \ --database postgresql \ --skip-action-mailer \ --skip-action-mailbox \ --skip-action-text \ --skip-active-storage \ --skip-sprockets \ --skip-listen \ --skip-javascript \ --skip-turbolinks \ --skip-…

There’s some discussion of what that could look like in Interactive "rails new" – would you mind looking at some of the ideas there and telling me what you’d find most helpful?

Feel free to merge this thread in, it’s related enough. An interactive approach sidesteps the real problem which is the every-growing list of things that most people don’t need or want being thrust upon us. I agree with others who are interested in being able to “rails g” things later, though real…

When creating a new app, there are so many things that could be skipped that I did not know about and did not find an explanation of how to add those features later on if I need them. I had to look up into each of them, decide if I needed them now or could maybe who knows need it later. The lack of…

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joallard (Jonathan Allard) May 8, 2020, 4:12am 14

What do you mean by “frameworks”? Like ActiveRecord, ActionView, and so on?

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