A couple of weeks ago, Joel asked: Starting a new rails app is fun! But after setting my bespoke set of preferred gems and config for the N-hundred’th time I think it may be time for some sort of template/generator/whatever. Any tips? So, I mentioned the approach I’ve used several times recently, using git’s format-patch feature, but it really needs walking through to understand how this is done. Patches are how you sent commits over email, something still done on a lot of projects but ...
