# Rails Boilerplate [Rails Boilerplate](https://github.com/khelben/rails-boilerplate) is a Rails (>= 3.1.0) gem which helps you to use the [html 5 boilerplate](http://html5boilerplate.com). ## Install & usage You'll need at least Rails 3.1. Then put this in your `Gemfile`: ```ruby gem "rails-boilerplate" ``` This gives you a generator `boilerplate:install` which does the following things: * updates `app/views/layouts/application.html.erb` to include all the elements used in the [H5BP:index.html](https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/master/index.html) converted to a Rails compatible ERB file, complete with the necessary rails helper calls. * adds `style.css`(renamed to reset.css), `modernizr.js` and `plugins.js` as assets * copies over some static file (like favicons, touch icons, robots.txt, humans.txt) to the `public/` folder. ## Development If you want to checkout the code, be sure to do: ```bash git submodule init git submodule update bundle ``` ## Todo * add option to strip comments from the `application.html.erb` * add option to exclude google analytics script ## Changelog ### 0.1.6: * google analytics scripts (ga.js) only gets attached in production env * generator adds `config.assets.precompile += %w(modernizr.js)` to `config/environments/production.rb` ### 0.1.5: 21/nov/2011: * updated to html5-boilerplate version ### 0.1.0: * initial version.