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Rails Examples, Tutorials, and Starter Apps

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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.

Above are notable; there are many more!

Starter Apps from Templates

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.

Starter Apps from Gems

These gems can be used to generate a starter app.

Author Gem Comments
Daniel Kehoe Rails Apps Composer A fork of the RailsWizard gem
Michael Bleigh RailsWizard The basis for the RailsWizard website
Kevin Faustino Rails Templater Gem-based app generator, many options
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