The Construct

This is The Construct. It's our rails template, it has almost everything. From beautiful layout to production ready setup, javascript components and good practices to learn.

Getting started

$ git clone https://github.com/lazaronixon/the_construct.git
$ rails new awesome-rails -d=postgresql --webpack=stimulus -m ~/RailsProjects/the_construct/template.rb

Features

• Stisla Admin Template
• TurboLinks
• Stimulus
• Scaffolds
• Heroku Ready
• Hybrid Mobile Architecture Ready
• DHH development practices
• ScreenCast

Stisla Admin Template

The construct integrates Stisla Admin Template with modern rails ecosystem tools like Webpack, Turbolinks and Stimulus JS, bringing a sophisticated implementation and maximum performance without SPA hassle.

Scaffolds

The construct replaces default scaffold template with a new one focused on production. Some features are:

• Sortable and filterable
• Infinite scroll pagination
• Exportable data
• Input masks
• Select with autocomplete on references fields
• Toastr plugin to show flash messages
• HTML5 client side validation integration
• Ajax form post with turbolinks handlers
• API and WEB share controllers
• Self generated system tests

Heroku Ready

The construct comes with some opinionated configurations and addons that should be on any production application like:

• Heroku Redis for data store and caching.
• PaperTrail or any other for logging.
• SendGrid for email delivery.
• RackRatelimit for blocking & throttling abusive requests.
• AssetHost configured to ENV['CLOUDFRONT_URL'].
• Sidekiq as queue adapter.
• Force SSL.

Hybrid Mobile Architecture Ready

The construct is a Majestic Monolith template so it is full compatible with TurboLinks IOS, TurboLinks Android or React Native TurboLinks. After create a new project you can easily port it to a IOS/Android APP.

Requirements

Rails ~> 6.0.0