Late last week we released a new version of Prologue, our project-starter gem. The templating system is now more flexible, allowing for multiple named templates. Currently, the default prologue application template is the same as it always has been, but even that should be changing soon (hint hint).

To check out something new, have a peek in the templates directory - the async template. With this, you can run...

> prologue new project_name async

...and it will generate a new project for you using the async template. This does the bare-minimum setup on top of a standard "rails new" for a Rails application to respond asynchronously including...

• Setting up mysql2 to use the EventMachine adapter
• Adding in the Rack FiberPool middleware
• Installing the Thin server

How You Can Help

We would love to have better template options for people to use. An ideal template that could be added is any that bootstraps an application for a specific purpose or with a specific set of functionality already developed. So, fork it, add a template, and send us a pull request!