Clone Instrumental Template to a new app

How to clone Instrumental Template to a new app

If you're starting a totally fresh app and don't want to use Instrumental Template, then use these instructions instead. Otherwise, read on to use Instrumental Template for this new app.

Clone the Instrumental Template repo

git clone https://github.com/CasJam/instrumental-template.git new_app_name

CD to the new app

cd new_app_name

Remove the git repo

rm -rf .git

Initialize a new git repo

git init

Initial commit

git add .
git commit "initial commit"

Create GitHub Repository

In my CasJam Github account, create a new github repo here

Assuming you've already initiated git in the project folder, you now add the github repo as a remote and push to it (replace PROJECTNAME)

git remote add origin https://github.com/CasJam/PROJECTNAME.git
git push -u origin main

Find and replace the following terms:

Change these to the new app's name:

Instrumental Template

InstrumentalTemplate

instrumental_template

instrumental

Bundle Install

bundle

Create the db

rails db:create

Run migrations

rails db:migrate

Connect to database in TablePlus app

For the development database:

host: localhost username: (can leave blank) password: (can leave blank) database_name: Find this in config/database.yml. It's probably projectname_development port: 5432 (leave it as default)

Run the server

./bin/dev

Start new Rails Credentials

If the cloned (new) app has files inside of config/credentials, then delete all of them. Then run:

EDITOR="nano" bin/rails credentials:edit --environment development

EDITOR="nano" bin/rails credentials:edit --environment staging

EDITOR="nano" bin/rails credentials:edit --environment test

EDITOR="nano" bin/rails credentials:edit --environment production

That will open the "nano" editor in terminal, which you can use to save the credentials file for the first time. After that, use my commannds for editing rails credentials in Sublime, etc.