Firstly this is a work in progress, so hold on tight!
This is a boilerplate application for web development using all of your favorite open source components.
Use this as a starting point for getting a server up and running with backbone and templating.
- Sinatra
- Backbone.js
- Twitter Bootstrap
- Hogan.js templating
- CoffeeScript
- SASS & Compass
I recommend that you use RVM to create a new Ruby virtual machine and gemset first.
$ bundle install
$ bundle exec shotgun
You should all be up and running now. That was easy.
Navigate in your browser to http://localhost:9393
making any changes to app.rb will auto load thanks to shotgun.
This is a starting point for your app. You will of course want to make changes.
So the main Backbone application is located in app. Main CoffeeScript file is the js/app/app.coffee.
Any changes to this file will be compiled automatically when you refresh the browser.
Write your CSS using SASS and Compass inside app/css/app.scss. You can include files as you would normally in SASS like:
@import '_formstyles.scss';
- Add unit tests
- other stuff….
Firstly i'm not a Ruby expert so i'm sure there are better ways to do what I have done here.