Open Source Rails 3.2 Example Apps and Tutorials

This is a website and GitHub repository for open source Ruby on Rails example apps and Rails tutorials.

It spans the gap between Ruby on Rails tutorials for beginners and the piecemeal advice found on experts’ blogs.

Here’s what you can do:

• follow the Rails tutorials and examine the code to to see examples of complete working Rails 3.2 web applications
• download code (“clone a repository”) to customize an app for your own use
• use an application template to generate a ready-made starter app
• modify an application template to make your own custom starter app

New to Rails? See a list of recommended resources for Rails.

Follow the RailsApps Project

• Follow the project on Twitter: @rails_apps. Tweet some praise if you like what you’ve found.

• Add +RailsApps to your Google+ circles for updates.

Testimonials

“Thanks so much for this. There are so many Rails tutorials for absolute beginners, and lots of stuff that assumes expert knowledge, but not much, besides practice, to span the gap.” — Rick Quantz, HackerNews, 13 May 2011

“I would like to say thank you for such a precise guide. It helped me understand how things work a great deal quicker than all of the bits and pieces I was reading around the web.” — Justin Booth

“@danielkehoe is somewhat of a hero with the stuff he puts on @github” — Warwick Poole, Twitter, 2 July 2011

“Crazy Deep” — Peter Cooper, Ruby Weekly, 19 May 2011

Popular Articles

• Installing Rails 3.2
• Managing Rails Versions and Gems
• Rails 3.2 on Heroku
• HTML5 Boilerplate for Rails Developers

Useful References

• Twitter Bootstrap and Rails
• Using Git with Rails
• Haml and Rails
• Example Gemfiles for Rails 3.2
• Rails Default Application Layout

Rails Examples and Tutorials

These open source example apps were created with the Rails Apps Composer Gem which you can use to make your own starter apps.

See a list of Applications Powered Up by the RailsApps Project.

Want more? See an expanded list of Rails Examples, Tutorials, and Starter Apps.