My project

Set up RVM

rvm --rvmrc --create 1.9.2@myproject

Install dependency gems

rvm gemset import

Start

monk start

Run tests

monk test

Skeleton Info

The skeleton is based on [http://github.com/monk/experimental](Monk Experimental).

• This means no more dependency on monk-glue, among other things.
• This still works with old monk installations. (pre 1.0)

Usage

Creating a project from scratch? Install monk and add this skeleton to it.

sudo gem install monk --pre
monk add monkex https://github.com/sinefunc/monk-experimental.git

Then create an app:

monk init my_great_app -s monkex

ORM-less

The skeleton comes with no ORM by default.

However, there are sample config files in config/ for Ohm and Sequel which has instructions on how to set them up.

Sinatra-style configuration

The bootstrapper loads all of config/*.rb, starting with the default files (like haml.default.rb).

• To set settings: Main.set :name, "Hello"
• To retrieve settings: settings.name

JS Minification

Uses JsFiles (to compress JS files).

• Edit config/jsfiles.defaults.rb to see which JS files are to be processed.

HTML5 boilerplate

Some things from the HTML5 boilerplate were roughly followed:

• Modernizr built in
• Load JQuery/Modernizr/etc via CDN (Google's and Cachedcommon's public CDNs)
• DD_belatedPNG
• ...among other things (which should be fairly trivial to remove)

And more

• The jQuery helpers ensure that jQuery is loaded from Google servers first before falling back to the app-provided jQuery file.

• Uses AgentSniff to do browser detection. The HTML class is automatically set.

• A couple of new helpers have been added.