Is it time for sensible infrastructure as code defaults in Rails?

[RaggedClown (Kevin Lawrence)]

This conversation is somewhat related.

Interactive "rails new"

What are some small steps that you feel might get the ball rolling on that project? Perhaps rails new could record what it did (and didn’t do) in an install.yml file. rails new --config=install.yml could make it easy to copy the options from a previous installation. Overtime, we could add comments to that file to explain how to change a decision manually (for example to switch from mysql to postgres or to add or get rid of turbolinks). There could be an incremental process of automating som…

It talks about the tension between making rails new easy for newbies vs appropriate for experienced developers. It proposes a set of preconfigured defaults for different circumstances plus a --interactive flag to switch on and off common options.