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Rails Tutorials, Examples, and Starter Applications

by Daniel Kehoe

Last updated 11 July 2013

A list of recommended Rails tutorials with example applications. Also starter applications that can be customized for your own project.

New to Rails? See What is Ruby? And Rails?, recommendations for a Rails tutorial to suit your skill level and learning style, and top resources for Ruby and Rails.

Rails Composer Starter Applications with Tutorials

These example applications are created using the Rails Composer tool. Each is accompanied by a tutorial.

Example Applications for Rails 4.0	Tutorial	Comments
Learn Rails	coming soon	simple example website
Rails and Bootstrap	Tutorial	starter app for Rails and Twitter Bootstrap

Example Applications for Rails 3.2	Tutorial	Comments
Twitter Bootstrap, Devise, CanCan	Tutorial	Devise for authentication, CanCan for authorization, Twitter Bootstrap for CSS
Rails Membership Site with Stripe	Tutorial	Site with subscription billing using Stripe
Rails Membership Site with Recurly	Tutorial	Site with subscription billing using Recurly
Startup Prelaunch Signup App	Tutorial	For a startup prelaunch signup site
Devise, RSpec, Cucumber	Tutorial	Devise for authentication with ActiveRecord and SQLite for a database
Devise, Mongoid	Tutorial	Devise for authentication with a MongoDB datastore
OmniAuth, Mongoid	Tutorial	OmniAuth for authentication with a MongoDB datastore
Subdomains, Devise, Mongoid	Tutorial	Basecamp-style subdomains with Devise and MongoDB

Other Starter Applications with Tutorials

These example applications are accompanied by tutorials.

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

Clone these repositories and edit the files to create your own starter app. These are notable; there are many more!

Author	Project	Comments
Andi Altendorfer	Community Base Application	Devise, OmniAuth, Mongoid, CanCan, Paperclip, etc.
W.R. de Vos	rails_template	Devise, Oauth with Facebook and Google login, Mongoid, Cancan, Carrierwave, Rspec, Cucumber
Rendered Text	BaseApp	PostgreSQL, jQuery, RSpec, Cucumber, Devise, FB login, admin system
Stefan Wienert	Rails-3.1-BaseApp
Ryan Weald	Base-Rails-3.1-App
Kamil Wdowicz	Template3.1
Hugo Dias	RailStrap	Twitter Bootstrap, HTML5 Boilerplate
Brian Dear	Brian’s Basic Rails Starter Template	Haml, PostgreSQL
Adam Loving	Rails Bootstrap	Slim, Compass, Devise, Twitter Bootstrap, Omniauth

Application Templates for Starter Apps

There are many Rails application templates that generate starter apps. Application templates are Ruby scripts used with the "rails new myapp -m" command to generate a Rails app. See a list of notable Rails Application Templates.