Jumbo

Production-ready Rails 8.1 in one command.

Quick Start

curl -fsSL rails.mrz.sh | sh -s myapp

Or using the full command:

rails new myapp --skip-js -d=postgresql -m=https://rails.mrz.sh/t

Feature Groups

The template includes 5 optional feature groups. By default, all features are included.

Feature	Description	Skip Flag
Inertia Rails	React + TypeScript + Tailwind + shadcn/ui + Vite	--skip-inertia
Multi-staging	Kamal + Docker + multi-DB + staging/production	--skip-multistaging
Authentication	authentication-zero gem	--skip-auth
Developer Tools	RuboCop + Annotaterb + Zellij + Letter Opener	--skip-devtools
Trailblazer	Business logic organization framework	--skip-trailblazer

Usage Examples

# Interactive mode - prompts for each feature
rails new myapp --skip-js -d=postgresql -m=https://rails.mrz.sh/t

# Accept all features (no prompts)
rails new myapp --skip-js -d=postgresql -m=https://rails.mrz.sh/t -y

# Skip specific features (auto-accepts the rest)
rails new myapp --skip-js -d=postgresql -m=https://rails.mrz.sh/t --skip-auth

# Skip multiple features
rails new myapp --skip-js -d=postgresql -m=https://rails.mrz.sh/t --skip-auth --skip-trailblazer

# With curl installer
curl -fsSL rails.mrz.sh | sh -s myapp --skip-inertia --skip-devtools

What's Included

Frontend Stack

• Inertia.js + React - SPA experience without the complexity
• TypeScript - Type-safe frontend development
• Tailwind CSS - Utility-first styling
• shadcn/ui - Beautiful, accessible UI components
• Vite - Lightning-fast HMR and bundling
• Bun - Fast package manager

Backend Stack

• Rails 8.1 with PostgreSQL
• Solid Queue - Database-backed Active Job backend
• Solid Cache - Database-backed caching
• Solid Cable - Database-backed Action Cable

Deployment

• Kamal - Zero-downtime deployments
• Multi-stage environments - Development, staging, and production
• Environment-specific credentials - Separate encrypted credentials per environment
• Environment-specific seeds - Organized seed files per environment

Developer Experience

• Procfile.dev - Run Rails + Vite simultaneously
• pgreset - Quick PostgreSQL database reset
• annotaterb - Auto-annotate models with schema
• letter_opener - Preview emails in browser

Before Deploying

1. Update config/deploy.yml

Replace the placeholders:

• APP_NAME - Your application name
• REGISTRY_USERNAME - Your Docker registry username

2. Update config/deploy.staging.yml

Replace the placeholders:

• STAGING_SERVER_IP - Your staging server IP
• staging.example.com - Your staging domain
• deploy - Your SSH username
• 22 - Your SSH port (if different)

3. Update config/deploy.production.yml

Replace the placeholders:

• PRODUCTION_SERVER_IP - Your production server IP
• example.com - Your production domain
• deploy - Your SSH username
• 22 - Your SSH port (if different)

4. Set up Kamal secrets

Configure .kamal/secrets:

• KAMAL_REGISTRY_PASSWORD - Docker registry password
• RAILS_MASTER_KEY - From config/credentials/production.key
• POSTGRES_PASSWORD - PostgreSQL password

5. Deploy

# Deploy to staging
kamal deploy -d staging

# Deploy to production
kamal deploy -d production

Roadmap

• React shadcn/ui components
• Add Claude skills

Links

• Website: https://rails.mrz.sh
• GitHub: https://github.com/meerzulee/jumbo-template

Development

Working on the template itself:

# Build dist/ from src/ and public/
make build

# Run local dev server
make dev

# Deploy to Cloudflare
make deploy

# Clean build output
make clean

Project Structure

src/
├── template.rb     # Rails template file → dist/t
└── template/       # Template files → dist/template/

public/             # Static assets → dist/
dist/               # Build output (gitignored)

License

MIT