railsnew.io
Your Rails Project Builder with Extra Rizz
Turn your perfect Rails setup into a reusable recipe. Because your future self called – they're tired of copy-pasting configs and playing CLI flag bingo.
Copy-Paste? So 2023
Get all your Stimulus controllers, validators, form builders, and other config organized in one spot, use them in all your apps. Marie Kondo would be proud.
CLI Chaos?
Tired of --skip-this --skip-that --skip-the-drama 🤬? Stop drunk-texting your terminal at 3 AM.
Tired of Stack Politics?
RSpec leftist? Minitest conservative? Phlex anarchist? We push up a big tent. Browse endlessly, then pick what you knew you wanted anyway.
Join the Rails Side
Welcome to the Rails rebellion. Join the Discord (coming soon™), trade recipes, dodge antipatterns, and build at lightspeed. This is the way.
Recipes & Ingredients
Recipes: Your app's secret sauce. Built from ingredients (Rails templates on steroids), they package battle-tested code & config for instant use.
The Boilerplate CMS
Stop hoarding code snippets and StackOverflow answers. Create custom ingredients that live in your UI, ready to join any recipe.
Sharing is Caring
Why start from scratch? Grab recipes from the community, remix them your way, and build something awesome. Then share yours too!
From Zero to Hero
Skip the "rails new → Github → CI → deployment" obstacle course. One click, and you're ready to clone and code, baby!
Warning: This post contains disturbing truths about your Rails setup that may cause severe developer anxiety and immediate refactoring urges.
Rails Setup Myths
separating fact from framework fan fiction
Let's talk about the elephant in the server room: Your initial Rails setup isn't as complete as you think it is. It's missing more pieces than your grandmother's jigsaw puzzle.
Enter railsnew.io: because vanilla is for ice cream, not apps.
You know that awkward moment when your stock Rails app is about as equipped as bringing a spork to a samurai duel? Yeah, we are on a quest to turn your fresh install into a lean, mean, shipping machine.
railsnew.io injects your Rails setup with the kind of heat that makes senior devs bite their lips. We're talking:
- 💎 Gems that actually get invited to the cool kids' table
- 🛠️ Dev tools that make your current setup look like geocities
- 📊 Monitoring that doesn't just stare blankly at your logs
- ⚡️ Zero-to-hero setup faster than you can say "where's my debugger?"
- ... and more
Stop raw-dogging your Rails installs. Give your app some game!
.railsrc: Because who doesn't love maintaining yet another config file?
Picture your perfect pizza: San Marzano tomatoes dancing with Cantabrian anchovies, truffles doing the tango with... fine, Hawaiian pineapple (no judgement).
Magnificent… until your tastes change, new toppings get invented, or you discover you're lactose intolerant.
Today's perfect setup becomes tomorrow's technical debt.
Stop cooking with yesterday's recipe. Chef up something better with railsnew.io.
Gem management: where 'It works on my machine' goes to die.
Here's a fun bedtime story: Tailwind creates different code when added at app creation time vs later on, to an existing app. Plot twist: This affected the setup of Phlex, a completely unrelated gem, and it took 2 PRs to fix the discrepancy.
Now imagine this butterfly effect across your entire application, consisting of many gems with their own quirks.
Chapter 2: Upgrading mission_control-jobs by a minor version consistently crashed building the Docker container. Only isolating the issue took 2 hours, never mind the fix.
Chapter 3: The stock Dockerfile, deploy.yml, and .kamal/.secret trio (bonus: secure secret management)? In theory it just works. In practice... Well, see it for yourself (if you are brave).
Feel that anxiety? Good. Sleep tight!
When was your last gemfile update? Wrong answers only.
Still rocking awesome_print? That's adorable - like showing up to a party in JNCO jeans.
amazing_print is the new hotness, and annotate just got replaced by its cooler cousin annotaterb.
But hey, that's just the tip of the gemberg!
Let railsnew.io be your gem concierge - we've got the hookup to the good stuff, old and new.
Your stack, your rules (Sorry, DHH).
DHH swears by Omakase like it's the last slice of pizza.
We're over here at railsnew.io living our best SQLite-Phlex-vite-propshaft-Tailwind-daisyUI life.
Meanwhile, your team is probably hugging Postgres, RSpec and React like teddy bears.
News flash: your perfect stack is someone else's "thanks, but no thanks.”
That's why railsnew.io lets you build YOUR flavor of perfection - because one dev's Slim is another dev's bloat.
Rebel with a cause. Declare stack independence with railsnew.io!
Your Rails Setup is Bleeding Time (And We've Got the Bandaid)
Look, we could keep listing problems until your coffee gets cold, but you're a dev – you get it. These aren't just headaches, they're time vampires.
Sure, you could solve all this yourself. You could also build your own framework from scratch or write your own database. But let's be real – you've got better things to do than bikeshedding your initial Rails setup.
Between dependency conflicts, initialization order issues, and the ever-evolving Rails ecosystem, getting your initial setup right is less about coding skill and more about... a bit of everything else, like keeping a pulse on developments in gemland,bombing out during app setup, rather than later on.
How? Glad you asked. Keep on reading.
Beyond rails new: Where the Magic Happens
Remember your first rails new adventure? Cute. Now let's put on our big developer pants.
Here's how it works:
Step 1: Login with GitHub.
That's it.
No password juggling.
No "forgot password" dance.
No authentication gymnastics.
We're developers, not circus performers.
Step 2: Cook Up Your Dream App
This is where it gets juicy:
- Configure all
rails newCLI options (synced to the Rails repo, because we're obsessive like that) via an interactive wizard- Cherry-pick your gems (and their configs) like you're at a developer candy store
- Customize everything that matters
Step 3: Choose Your Adventure
Option A: Old School
Copy-paste into your terminal like it's 2010. Hey, we don't judge.
Option B: Future Style
- Click "Generate My App"
- Watch as we:
- Build your app to spec
- Push it to GitHub
- Run CI (because trust, but verify)
- Hand you a sexy git clone command
Et voilà: a perfectly set up, tested, GitHub-pushed app at your fingertips. What's not to love?
Bonus Round: Analytics That Don't Suck
Every rails new app shows up on your personal dashboard and gets tracked (anonymously, we're not creeps) then fed into our global "State of Rails" dashboard. It's like a real-time, always-on Robby Russell-style "state of Rails" report.
Pricing
The Part Where You Brace For Financial Impact
Oh shit, here it comes, right? You've seen it before.
You're scrolling, nodding along, waiting for the moment when we reveal our "very reasonable" enterprise pricing that would make your credit card cry.
That moment in every SaaS story where they tell you it's "only" $49/month (per developer, billed annually, firstborn child optional)..
Well, plot twist:
It's Free.
Like, actually free. Not "free trial" free. Not "we'll-spam-you-until-you-upgrade" free. Just... free.
No premium tier. No enterprise features. No blockchain-AI-powered-cloud-native bullshit upcharges.
Just type your command and go make something awesome.
Yes, our business model is questionable. No, we don't want to talk about it.
Hobby
Free /month
The perfect plan for every ocassion.
- Overview of all the applications you've created
- Reuse previous application templates
- Share your templates with the community
- Clone public templates of other users
- Implement your own recipes (a template consists of many recipes)
- ... and more!
Enterprise
$0 /month
Because Simple Language Is Too Mainstream™.
- Disrupt vertical integration pathways via blockchain-enabled osmosis
- Deploy enterprise-grade synergy optimization
- Streamline holistic growth hacking with AI-powered mindfulness
- Harmonize multi-dimensional corporate reaction strategy
- ... and more! (but you probably don't want to know)
- All features include our patented "Doing Absolutely Nothing™" technology
Slay the setup dragons with railsnew.io. Sign up to the waitlist below!
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