Improve how to test generated project

[rosle]

Why

Sometimes when working on the addon, we need to test the generated app if it works. Usually, we create some basic controller view, add style and javascript to test. 🕵️

To avoid this repetitive step, we can make a patch and keep applying it on the generated project.

• Create basic controller and view with basic stylesheet and javascript
• Make a patch file of the diff
• Commit it to the template, so everyone can reuse it
• Add instruction into template readme / wiki

Who Benefits?

Developers who work on the template

[malparty]

I faced the same challenges, but as we are now building the CRUD add-on, the flow might be much easier:

• scaffold an app with the CRUD addon
• use the generate command to add model/view/controllers/...
• and voila!

So I recommend updating this story with

• Add a create_test_app make command
• Document how to quickly generate an app (make create_test_app, cd test_app, rails g crud device name:string price:float description:text, make dev, ...) or eventually provide a script that does it all-at-once