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Rails Examples, Tutorials, and Starter Apps

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In the Rails Apps Repository

These examples 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	Detailed tutorial, app template, starter app, using SQLite
Daniel Kehoe	Devise, Mongoid	Detailed tutorial, app template, starter app, combining Devise with MongoDB
Daniel Kehoe	OmniAuth, Mongoid	Detailed tutorial, app template, starter app, combining OmniAuth with MongoDB

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

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

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.

And many more!

Starter Apps from Templates

These application templates can be used to generate a starter app with the rails new -m command.

Too many to list!

Starter Apps from Gems

These gems can be used to generate a starter app.

Author	Gem	Comments
Daniel Kehoe	rails3_devise_wizard	A fork of the RailsWizard gem
Michael Bleigh	RailsWizard	The basis for the RailsWizard website
Kristian Mandrup	Cream	Gem-based app generator for apps with Devise, many ORMs, CanCan

Starter Apps from Websites

Visit this website to select “recipes” and generate an application template for a starter app.

Author	Site	Comments
Michael Bleigh	RailsWizard	numerous options