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Rails Examples, Tutorials, and Starter Apps

by Daniel Kehoe

Last updated 26 July 2012

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

Got an addition? Let me know in the comments below.

Rails Composer Examples with Tutorials

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

Example App	Tutorial	App Template	Comments
Devise, RSpec, Cucumber	Tutorial	Rails Composer	Uses ActiveRecord and SQLite
Twitter Bootstrap, Devise, CanCan	Tutorial	Rails Composer	Devise for authentication, CanCan for authorization, Twitter Bootstrap for CSS
Startup Prelaunch Signup	Tutorial	Rails Composer	For a startup prelaunch signup site
Devise, Mongoid	Tutorial	Rails Composer	Combines Devise with MongoDB
OmniAuth, Mongoid	Tutorial	Rails Composer	OmniAuth for authentication with a MongoDB datastore
Subdomains, Devise, Mongoid	Tutorial	Rails Composer	Basecamp-style subdomains with Devise and MongoDB

Examples with Tutorials

These examples 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

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.