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Daniel Kehoe edited this page May 17, 2011 · 21 revisions

Rails Examples, Tutorials, and Starter Apps

This is a list of notable projects for Rails example apps, accompanied by tutorials or application templates for starter apps.

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These examples from the RailsApps project provide a working Rails app with a detailed tutorial plus an application template that can be used to create a starter app.

Author Example App Comments
Daniel Kehoe Devise, RSpec, Cucumber Uses SQLite
Daniel Kehoe Devise, Mongoid Combines Devise with MongoDB
Daniel Kehoe OmniAuth, Mongoid Combines OmniAuth with MongoDB

These example apps were created with the Rails Apps Composer gem.

Application templates for each are found in the Rails 3 Application Templates repository.

Similar Tutorials

These examples are accompanied by tutorials (but no application templates for starter apps).

Author Tutorial and Example App Comments
Fernando Tapia Rico Devise, OmniAuth, Mongoid Combines Devise and OmniAuth for use with MongoDB
Markus Proske OmniAuth Pure example and tutorial for OmniAuth with multiple providers
Markus Proske Devise and OmniAuth example and tutorial for OmniAuth and Devise with multiple providers

Other Starter Apps

You can clone these repositories and edit the files to create your own starter app.

Author Project Comments
Andi Altendorfer Community Base Application Devise, OmniAuth, Mongoid, CanCan, Paperclip, etc.

Above are notable; there are many more!

Other Application Templates and Gems for Starter Apps

Application templates are Ruby scripts used with the "rails new app_name -m" command to generate a Rails app. Many developers have developed Rails application templates. See a list of notable Rails Application Template Projects.

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