Example creating a new rails api app

Notes from working with: https://devmynd.com/blog/2014-7-rails-ember-js-with-the-ember-cli-redux-part-1-the-api-and-cms-with-ruby-on-rails/
  1. Create new rails app 
    
rails new backend -T -d postgresql
cd backend
  2. Edit Gemfile and be sure the below is included 
    
gem "grape"
gem "grape-active_model_serializers"
gem "grape-swagger-rails"

group :development do
  gem "better_errors"
  gem "meta_request"
  gem "quiet_assets"
  gem "spring"
  gem "rails-erd"    # Generates a Entity Relationship Diagram
end

group :development, :test do
  gem "capybara"
  gem "capybara-screenshot"
  gem "database_cleaner"
  gem "factory_girl_rails"
  gem "faker"
  gem "poltergeist"
  gem "pry-nav"
  gem "pry-rails"
  gem "pry-stack_explorer"
  gem "pry-theme"
  gem "rspec-rails"
  gem "rubocop"
  gem "shoulda-matchers"
  gem "spring-commands-rspec"
  gem "annotate"  # Annotates model classes with comments of db fields
end
  3. Install the dependencies 
    
bundle install
  4. Edit credentials for database, config/database.yml
    5. 
default: &default                                                        
  adapter: postgresql                                                                  
  ....
  .... 
  host:  localhost                                                                       
  username: pguser                                                                    
  password: test
  5. Run some generators 
    
bundle exec rails generate rspec:install
bundle exec spring binstub --all
bundle exec rake db:create db:migrate db:seed

  6. 
bundle exec rails generate model contact first_name:string last_name:string email:string title:string

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