What is the best rails example app?

Question

What is the best available non-trivial example app for rails with uptodate source, test suite and adherence to best practices?

[I am looking for an example of a full fledged application - with complex data models and advanced views that is worth looking at to see "how it is done" by others]

Answer 1

http://github.com/fudgestudios/bort

Answer 2

I'm not sure what does qualify as "best" available app but I'd advise you to look at Redmine for a non-trivial app, full of features as an example.

EDIT: let me add Typo and RadiantCMS

Answer 3

http://github.com/radar/rboard fulfills all the above.

Answer 4

There are plenty of projects on github that you can download and have a look at. In my opinion its far better to look at an actual application as apposed to a sample one. Sample ones are usually bloated and do things you'd never actually do in practice. I was going to suggest rboard but Radar (the author) beat me to it :)

Answer 5

I'd hardly say it's THE best, but here's a bunch of sample rails apps I created.

I also made a boilerplate app.

Answer 6

Redmine is a fairly complex project tracker with a lot of features. The full source is available and is very up to date.

edit: Whoops...I didn't catch the mention of Redmine in one of the above comments.

Answer 7

Mephisto Blog system has "Unit tests at 100%". Also the name Rick Olson should say a lot about the quality of code.

Answer 8

The folks at Hashrocket recently worked on Spot.Us. It's still being actively developed and the source is on GitHub. Spot.Us might fit the bill for you because:

• It was built by the folks at Hashrocket and they have a great rep in the Rails community
• There are over 20 models in the app (counting all the model files in the app/models directory), so it's definitely a non-trivial app
• The app appears to be well-tested (many tests in the spec directory)

Answer 9

Insoshi fulfils all of your requirements. It's developed by the guys that wrote RailsSpace. They're really quite hot on best practices and testing in particular.

Answer 10

This is a duplicate, or at least close-to: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/193632/whats-a-good-rails-example-application

From that post: On my drive I have a number of open-source Rails apps I have used for reference while learning Rails as also sanity checking that I am doing things the "rails-way":

• Depot (from the Agile Dev with Rails book)
• Beast (forum)
• Mephisto (blogging)
• Radiant (cms)
• Substruct (ecommerce)
• Tracks (to-do list and task manager)

Beast and Mephisto are particularly valuable as the have been developed by high-profile members of the Rails community.

Answer 11

• Spree - Online Commerce for Ruby on Rails
• Insoshi - social networking platform
• shinmun - blog engine

I hope it's useful

Answer 12

We started to use acunote for agile project management. I think the coolest feature is inline editing. No need to click on an edit button, just click some text and it will automatically replace the label with a text editor. This is very convenient!