Adds a "bare" template, containing the very minimum you want to have in 90% of cases.

bonobo/commands/init.py

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from bonobo.commands import BaseCommand
 
 
 class InitCommand(BaseCommand):
-    TEMPLATES = {'default'}
+    TEMPLATES = {'bare', 'default'}
     TEMPLATES_PATH = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'templates')
 
     def add_arguments(self, parser):

bonobo/commands/templates/bare.py-tpl

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+import bonobo
+
+
+def get_graph(**options):
+    graph = bonobo.Graph()
+    return graph
+
+
+def get_services(**options):
+    return {}
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    with bonobo.parse_args() as options:
+        bonobo.run(get_graph(**options), services=get_services(**options))

tests/commands/test_init.py

@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 import os
 
+import pytest
+
+from bonobo.commands.init import InitCommand
 from bonobo.util.testing import all_runners
 
 
@@ -12,4 +15,15 @@ def test_init_file(runner, tmpdir):
 
     out, err = runner('run', target_filename)
     assert out.replace('\n', ' ').strip() == 'Hello World'
-    assert not err
+    assert not err
+
+
+@all_runners
+@pytest.mark.parametrize('template', InitCommand.TEMPLATES)
+def test_init_file_templates(runner, template, tmpdir):
+    target = tmpdir.join('foo.py')
+    target_filename = str(target)
+    runner('init', target_filename)
+    assert os.path.exists(target_filename)
+    out, err = runner('run', target_filename)
+    assert not err