New Rails + Sublime Text 2 Project (Script)

newrailsproject.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#
# newrailsproject.rb
#
# Description:
# Easily create a new Rails project and Sublime Text 2 project file.
#
# By Jonathan Beebe. MIT License.
#
# Syntax: ruby newrailsproject.rb PROJECT_NAME BASE_PATH [sublime_project_basepath]
#
# requires:
#   * rails (gem install rails)
#   * json (gem install json)

project_name, base_path, sublime_project_path = ARGV

def help
  puts <<-HELPFILE
Usage:
  ruby newrailsproject.rb <NAME> <BASEPATH> [sublime_project_basepath]

Options:
  -h [--help] # show this help information

HELPFILE
  Process.exit(0)
end

# create a Sublime Text 2 project (which is JSON format)
def sublime_project( name, base_path, project_path )
  require 'json'
  project = { "folders" => [{ "path" => base_path }] }

  filename = project_path + '/' + name.delete(' ') + ".sublime-project"
  sublime_project = File.open( filename , 'w' )
  sublime_project.write( project.to_json )
  sublime_project.close
end

# creates a new rails app (via "rails new ...")
def new_rails( name, base )
  return if not name or not base

  name = name.delete(' ') # removes all spaces from string
  exec "rails new #{base}/#{name}"
end

# check script arguments; show help if name and/or basepath is not provided
if project_name == "-h" or project_name == "--help"
  help
elsif not project_name
  project_name = "railsapp"
end

if not base_path
  help
else
  # make sure path does not end with a slash '/'
  if base_path[-1] == '/'
    base_path.pop
  end
end

sublime_project( project_name, base_path + '/' + project_name, sublime_project_path || base_path )
new_rails( project_name, base_path )