Topic: state-of-the-art example app?
I'm looking for a good Rails 2.0 example app.
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Great shout, fortuity. I'd love to see an example app too. This is definitely needed for Rails newbies at this point in time, for all the reasons you've stated.
I found the RailsSpace book a little confusing - I just couldn't understand why they wanted to make the blog RESTful, but not the rest of the app. I understand it now, but at the time I was left scratching my head....
I've been considering designing something in static html and snazzy CSS, and talking someone into doing a walk through on how to build it properly. But it might be better if I just work out how to do it myself!
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Heres some places to start 
www.37signals.com
http://www.dopplr.com/
www.twitter.com
http://happycodr.com/
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reddavis999 wrote:
Heres some places to start
www.37signals.com
http://www.dopplr.com/
www.twitter.com
http://happycodr.com/
Thanks, happycodr looks pretty interesting. However, I think fortuity was interested in checking out source code...
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The BEAST forum is usually claimed as being the best application to start learning restful design.
Check it out here: http://beast.caboo.se/
Last edited by Johnson (2008-02-20 08:34:31)
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I think Joyent Connector might be an interesting piece of source code.
http://www.joyent.com/connector/collaboration-suite
http://dev.joyent.com/projects/connector/browse/trunk
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Re: state-of-the-art example app?
Johnson wrote:
The BEAST forum is usually claimed as being the best application to start learning restful design.
Check it out here: http://beast.caboo.se/
Beast is a good 'un - I'll poke through it this evening. Thanks!
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jboss wrote:
I think Joyent Connector might be an interesting piece of source code.
http://www.joyent.com/connector/collaboration-suite
http://dev.joyent.com/projects/connector/browse/trunk
It doesn't look very restful to me.
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See my blog post for more discussion.
A promising beginning point appears to be the Altered Beast forums application, a newer version of Beast. It's RESTful. It uses Rails 2.0, rspec, and restful_authentication (with the acts_as_state_machine option). I also liked LovdbyLess, a free open source social network platform. It uses Rails 2.0 but not rspec or restful_authentication.
Among the tutorial apps in published Rails books, I liked RailsCoders, the example app from the book Practical Rails Social Networking Sites, published by Apress. It's a full-featured app and it is RESTful. The author chose to implement his own authentication (using RESTful principles); I would prefer to use the restful_authentication plugin. The app was written for Rails 1.2.3, not Rails 2.0, but an upgrade is relatively easy.
I'd still like to know what people are using as their jumping-off points for development projects. I don't believe everyone writes every app from scratch, at least when they are starting out!
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fortuity, I left a comment about Insoshi on your blog post. If anyone's looking for a solid social networking platform and an up & coming open source project, Insoshi should fit the bill.
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There's a new site that provides a gallery of open source rails applications. Great idea! And a good place to look for apps that can be studied, adapted, or improved.
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I found an interesting example app named Jumpstart from the people at Relevance Inc.
Last edited by fortuity (2008-04-21 19:39:48)