app.rb

gem "mongoid", ">= 2.0.0.beta9"
gem "bson_ext", ">= 1.0.3"
gem "haml", ">= 3.0.12"
gem "rspec-rails", ">= 2.0.0.beta.15", :group => :test

generators = <<-GENERATORS
    config.generators do |g|
      g.orm :mongoid
      g.template_engine :haml
      g.test_framework :rspec, :fixture => true, :views => false
    end
GENERATORS

application generators

get "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js",  "public/javascripts/jquery.js"
get "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.1/jquery-ui.min.js", "public/javascripts/jquery-ui.js"
get "http://github.com/rails/jquery-ujs/raw/master/src/rails.js", "public/javascripts/rails.js"

jquery = <<-JQUERY
module ActionView::Helpers::AssetTagHelper
  remove_const :JAVASCRIPT_DEFAULT_SOURCES
  JAVASCRIPT_DEFAULT_SOURCES = %w(jquery.js jquery-ui.js rails.js)

  reset_javascript_include_default
end
JQUERY

initializer "jquery.rb", jquery

layout = <<-LAYOUT
!!!
%html
  %head
    %title #{app_name.humanize}
    = stylesheet_link_tag :all
    = javascript_include_tag :defaults
    = csrf_meta_tag
  %body
    = yield
LAYOUT

remove_file "app/views/layouts/application.html.erb"
create_file "app/views/layouts/application.html.haml", layout

create_file "log/.gitkeep"
create_file "tmp/.gitkeep"

git :init
git :add => "."

docs = <<-DOCS

Run the following commands to complete the setup of #{app_name.humanize}:

% cd #{app_name}
% gem install bundler
% bundle install
% bundle lock
% script/rails generate mongoid:config
% script/rails generate rspec:install

DOCS

log docs

1. To follow the updates 2. To include jQuery UI 3. Because I took the template from Les Hill and modified it to match my needs