This project is will give you a fresh Web application with state of the art tools when you sit down at a StartupWeekend or hackathon. Below is a step by step guide to set up a Rails web application in just an hour. You definitely want to complete the prerequisites before the event begins.

• Install ruby (rvm is recommended)
• Install rails (currently rails-bootstrap is running on Rails 3.2.11)
• Postgres or mysql is nice but not necessary, rails will default to sqlite
• Install git http://help.github.com/mac-set-up-git/
• Get set up to push/pull from github http://help.github.com/mac-set-up-git/
• Setup for heroku https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/rails3

Start here if you are familiar with Rails, git, and Heroku.

• Buy your domain name
• Clone the Github repo

$ git clone [email protected]:adamloving/rails-bootstrap.git myproject

• Create a Heroku app https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/rails3#deploy_to_herokucedar

$ heroku create $ git push heroku master

• Slim
• Compass
• Devise
• Twitter bootstrap
• Coffeescript
• Omniauth sign in with Facebook (easy to add Twitter or another OAuth provider)

• Rename (search and replace) “SocialKit” to the name of your app.

• Create your database

$ heroku rake db:migrate

• Point your domain name at your heroku app https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/custom-domains

heroku domains:add www.myapp.com heroku domains:add myapp.com

• add a CNAME record for myapp.heroku.com (and A records)
• Create a Facebook app for login. Setup the app with your domain on Facebook.
• add config variables for your Facebook App

$ heroku config:add FACEBOOK_APP_ID=1234 $ heroku config:add FACEBOOK_SECRET=4567

Voila, within a few minutes you should be live.

Send @adamloving a tweet to let me know how it went.