A quick and dirty script to quickly bootstrap a sinatra app.

nusinapp.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

name = ARGV[0]

raise ArgumentError, "You must provide a project name" if name.nil?

def run(cmd)
  `#{cmd}`
end

def mkdir(dir)
  puts " + #{dir}/"
  run "mkdir #{dir}"
end

def touch(file)
  puts " ~ #{file}"
  run "touch #{file}"
end

def write(file)
  File.open(file, 'w') { |f| f.write(yield) }
end

run "mkdir #{name}"

Dir.chdir name

mkdir "public"
mkdir "views"
mkdir "lib"
touch "lib/bootstrapper.rb"
touch "app.rb"
touch "config.ru"
touch "Gemfile"
touch "README"
touch ".rspec"
mkdir "spec"
mkdir "spec/lib"
touch "spec/spec_helper.rb"
touch "spec/app_spec.rb"

# =========================================================
# lib/bootstrapper.rb
# =========================================================

write('lib/bootstrapper.rb') do
<<-TXT
require 'rubygems'
require 'bundler'

Bundler.setup unless File.exists?(File.expand_path('../.bundle/environment', __FILE__))
Bundler.require(:default)

require 'sinatra/base'
TXT
end

# =========================================================
# app.rb
# =========================================================

write('app.rb') do
<<-TXT
require 'bootstrapper'

class App < Sinatra::Base

  configure do
    set :app_file, __FILE__
    set :logging, Proc.new { !test? }
    set :run, Proc.new { !test? }
    set :dump_errors, true
    set :haml, {:format => :html5 }
  end

  get '/' do
    'Hello!'
  end
end
TXT
end

# =========================================================
# config.ru
# =========================================================

write('config.ru') do
<<-TXT
# add lib dir to load path
$:.unshift File.expand_path('../lib', __FILE__)

require File.expand_path('../app', __FILE__)

run App
TXT
end

# =========================================================
# Gemfile
# =========================================================

write('Gemfile') do
<<-TXT
source 'http://rubygems.org'

gem 'sinatra', '1.0', :require => false

gem 'haml'
gem 'sass'

group :test do
  gem 'rack-test'
  gem 'rspec', '2.0.1'
end
TXT
end

# =========================================================
# README
# =========================================================

write('README') do
<<-TXT
I still wet the bed.
TXT
end

# =========================================================
# .rspec
# =========================================================

write('.rspec') do
<<-TXT
--color
--format progress
TXT
end

# =========================================================
# spec/spec_helper.rb
# =========================================================

write('spec/spec_helper.rb') do
<<-TXT
require 'rubygems'
require 'rack/test'

# absolute path to lib folder
lib_dir = File.expand_path('../../lib', __FILE__)

# insert lib folder into load_paths if it's not already
$:.unshift lib_dir unless $:.include?(lib_dir)
TXT
end

# =========================================================
# spec/app_spec.rb
# =========================================================

write('spec/app_spec.rb') do
<<-TXT
require File.expand_path('../spec_helper', __FILE__)
require File.expand_path('../../app', __FILE__)

App.set :environment, :test

describe "App" do
  include Rack::Test::Methods

  def app
    App
  end

  it "should respond to /" do
    get '/'
    last_response.should be_ok
  end

end
TXT
end

puts "\n > #{name} is ready for your hawt codez!"