barbones rails project with devise. enabled with cucumber/rspec/factory_girl

gistfile1.txt

rails new playing_around -d mysql -T -J 

# edit rmvrc file
# rvm use ruby-1.9.2@playing_around --create

gem install bundler

#add at least the following gems for cucumber and rspec testing.  nifty generators are kinda cool too
#group :test, :development do
#	gem 'cucumber-rails'
#	gem 'rspec-rails'
#       gem 'capybara'
#	gem 'cucumber'
#	gem 'autotest'
#	gem 'factory_girl_rails'
#end

#gem "nifty-generators", :group => :development
#gem "devise"
#gem "jquery-rails", "0.2.7" #nifty generators will not work with version above this


#gem "mocha", :group => :test

bundle install

rails g cucumber:install --rspec --capybara

rails g rspec:install

rails g devise:install

rails g jquery:install --ui


#rails g nifty:layout
#rails g nifty:config

rake db:create db:migrate db:test:prepare

#----- Extra credit, the following will creates users with firstname and lastname you can skip this to do a standard devise create

#rails g migration add_first_name_last_name_to_users
#    add_column :users, :firstname, :string
#    add_column :users, :lastname, :string
# -----------

rails g devise User

rake db:create db:migrate db:test:prepare

# rails generate devise:views -- only if you want to customize devise views, as in below

add the following to _form.html.erb in the devise view
  <p>
    <%= f.label :firstname %><br />
    <%= f.text_field :firstname %>
  </p>
  <p>
    <%= f.label :lastname %><br />
    <%= f.text_field :lastname %>
  </p>
--------- index.html.erb and show.html.erb
      <td><%= user.firstname %></td>
      <td><%= user.lastname %></td>


#autotest

#application.rb change the following. bug in rails
#config.action_view.javascript_expansions[:defaults] = %w(rails.js)

rails s