Fast Setup Tools for Ruby on Rails

In this post, I would like to introduce some ways to set up your own preferences using .rc files. Whenever I create a project, it was really annoying to specify a database type with -d option (beacuse rails gives SQLite as a default) and etc. So I thought it would be nice if you customize the rails generator.

I did not know the types of .rc files until I have searched about it and it was interesting. You can try with the following comman:

$ ls ~/.*rc

.irbrc

In rails console, you can use awesome_print as a default option.

# ~/.irbrc
require "awesome_print"
AwesomePrint.irb!

.gemrc

You can skip rdoc and ri generation for the faster installation of gems.

# ~/.gemrc
gem: --no-document

.railsrc

You can skip Test Unit and add PostgreSQL as the default option.

# ~/.railsrc
-d postgresql --skip-test-unit