Rails HTML5 Boilerplate Application Template

Just wanted to let fellow Rails users about a Rails application template I wrote to help speed up the process of starting new Rails projects that will make use of Paul Irish's HTML 5 Boilerplate (http://html5boilerplate.com/).

Project location: https://github.com/russfrisch/Rails-HTML5-Boilerplate-Template

Usage: rails new <appname> -m https://github.com/russfrisch/Rails-HTML5-Boilerplate-Template/raw/master/html5boilerplate.rb

This template does the following:

* Removes default prototype/scriptaculous javascripts and Rails driver * Downloads latest jQuery Rails driver and place into javascripts folder * Downloads HTML5 Boilerplate dependencies: javascripts, stylesheets, icons, .htaccess, etc. * Replace _contents_ of default application.html.erb layout with the contents of HTML5 boilerplate index.html * Modifies the updated application.html.erb to add back in appropriate Rails content * Updates javascript :defaults expansion to include jquery, plugins, and rails driver.

I'm relatively new to Ruby/Rails and this is my first template so any suggestions, feedback, or push requests are certainly welcome.

Hopefully this saves someone a little bit of time.

Russ