`bin/setup` script to bootstrap applications.

4 files changed, 34 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/guides/source/getting_started.md b/guides/source/getting_started.md
index 530232f3f3..d9619bbc21 100644
--- a/guides/source/getting_started.md
+++ b/guides/source/getting_started.md
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ of the files and folders that Rails created by default:
 | File/Folder | Purpose |
 | ----------- | ------- |
 |app/|Contains the controllers, models, views, helpers, mailers and assets for your application. You'll focus on this folder for the remainder of this guide.|
-|bin/|Contains the rails script that starts your app and can contain other scripts you use to deploy or run your application.|
+|bin/|Contains the rails script that starts your app and can contain other scripts you use to setup, deploy or run your application.|
 |config/|Configure your application's routes, database, and more. This is covered in more detail in [Configuring Rails Applications](configuring.html).|
 |config.ru|Rack configuration for Rack based servers used to start the application.|
 |db/|Contains your current database schema, as well as the database migrations.|
diff --git a/railties/CHANGELOG.md b/railties/CHANGELOG.md
index 8a41f160fa..b328619646 100644
--- a/railties/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/railties/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+*   Add `bin/setup` script to bootstrap an application.
+
+    *Yves Senn*
+
 *   Replace double quotes with single quotes while adding an entry into Gemfile.
 
     *Alexander Belaev*
diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/bin/setup b/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/bin/setup
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3d5f443406
--- /dev/null
+++ b/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/bin/setup
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+require 'pathname'
+
+# path to your application root.
+APP_ROOT = Pathname.new File.expand_path('../../',  __FILE__)
+
+Dir.chdir APP_ROOT do
+  # This script is a starting point to setup your application.
+  # Add necessary setup steps to this file:
+
+  puts "== Installing dependencies =="
+  system "gem install bundler --conservative"
+  system "bundle install"
+
+  # puts "\n== Copying sample files =="
+  # unless File.exists?("config/database.yml")
+  #   system "cp config/database.yml.sample config/database.yml"
+  # end
+
+  puts "\n== Preparing database =="
+  system "bin/rake db:setup"
+
+  puts "\n== Removing old logs and tempfiles =="
+  system "rm -f log/*"
+  system "rm -rf tmp/cache"
+
+  puts "\n== Restarting application server =="
+  system "touch tmp/restart.txt"
+end
diff --git a/railties/test/generators/app_generator_test.rb b/railties/test/generators/app_generator_test.rb
index 1cbbf62459..74cff08676 100644
--- a/railties/test/generators/app_generator_test.rb
+++ b/railties/test/generators/app_generator_test.rb
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ DEFAULT_APP_FILES = %w(
   bin/bundle
   bin/rails
   bin/rake
+  bin/setup
   config/environments
   config/initializers
   config/locales