Play-Nice

Custom settings for developing your Ruby on Rails app without affecting the main repo

Use this if you want to:

• develop with a different version of ruby to what's in .ruby-version
• install extra gems like pry or spring without annoying other developers on tlcohe same project
• customise your scripts and binstubs for the project without sharing

Installation

You will almost certainly want to customise this so it's easiest if you fork it first and clone your fork.

cd YOUR_RAILS_APP_DIR
git clone git@github.com:YOUR_GITHUB_ACCOUNT/play-nice.git
echo "play-nice/" >> .git/info/exclude
cp Gemfile.lock play-nice/Gemfile.local.lock

Usage

Run the app/play-nice/init script once when you start a shell to work on the project. You could add it to your .bash_profile or .zshrc but it's really a project specific thing so you probably don't want to do that. If you're using tmuxinator, specify it in the project file with this line:

pre_window: . ./play-nice/init

• Check your ruby version with ruby -v. It should be the one specifed in play-nice/init instead of .ruby-version.

• Running bundle will now use the play-nice/Gemfile.local which happens to include your Gemfile as well as whatever gems you modify it to use.

• The gbundle alias will operate on your standard Gemfile to update Gemfile.lock. Whenever you modify Gemfile you should run both gbundle and bundle.

Customizing

• Add your own gems to play-nice/Gemfile.local and run bundle to install them.
• Review the play-nice/init script and read the comments to customize any other behaviour

How it Works

• The Gemfile customization is based on this Stackoverflow answer.

• Ruby version is set by an environment variable (for RBENV at least)

• play-nice/bin is prepended to your PATH for overriding binstubs and scripts