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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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Examples with Tutorials and Templates for Starter Apps

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

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

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

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

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.
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

Above are notable; there are many more!

Application Templates and Gems for Starter Apps

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