Crystal Rails Template

This is a sample Rails-like project written in Crystal. Technically it's Kemal but abstracted away. The goal is to organize and utilize the underlying web framework in such a way that it feels as familiar as developing in Rails itself.

This project should be considered a template and example only. This will not be versioned and will have breaking changes if you were to depend on this as a code dependency. To use this repo simply clone it and make your modifications.

Why

1. It's a great learning experience.

2. The Crystal language is still young and likely has many breaking changes ahead in it's future. This is already evident from the Frost project which was meant to be Rails for Crystal but hasn't been updated in about a year and stopped working with Crystal many minor versions ago. The best way to work with Crystal while it's still young and volatile is to work with simple and smaller abstractions with the minimum amount of contingency on the non-Rubyish parts of the language. This will help keep your project alive as Crystal evolves.

Development

This project is open for continued advancement towards a more Rails-like design.

Deployment

• Heroku: At this time the Heroku buildpack for Crystal conflicts with the use of the app directory. See issue: crystal-lang/heroku-buildpack-crystal/issues/19 . Until this issue is resolved you may use an alternative one I've made: danielpclark/heroku-buildpack-crystal

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/danielpclark/railslike/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

• danielpclark Daniel P. Clark - creator, maintainer

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (C) 2017 by Daniel P. Clark and Contributors

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