Ruby on Rails Quickstart

Question

I've just completed a couple of Ruby on Rails books which were excellent. I'd like to know if there are any quickstarts or guides that can serve to jumpstart to my RoR projects but without all of the explanations that I have search through to get the steps. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

(Caveats: I'm too new to post many links so you may need to copy/paste. Not all of these are for the most current versions of Ruby/Rails but they will certainly get you going.)

CLONE TUTORIALS

Twitter Clone railsforzombies.org

Pinterest Clone guides.railsgirls.com/app/

Good Reads Clone zero-to-sixty-creating-and-deploying-a-rails-app-in-under-an-hour

(You will need to do some things differently in Rails 3/4 and just skip the Authlogic stuff altogether.)

GENERAL STARTS

Ruby Guide getting_started.html (also noted above)

Sitepoint Tutorial building-your-first-rails-application-models

STARTER APPLICATIONS

Bort github.com/MattHall/bort/tree/master

BaseApp2 github.com/dannymcc/BaseApp2 (requires QT SDK @ qt-project.org)

Boilerplate github.com/npverni/rails-boilerplate-script

SPECIFIC USE STARTER APPS

Community Engine communityengine.org

Tog toghq.com

Open Source Rails opensourcerails.com (Library of apps; build on the shoulders of giants, geniuses/genii, and semi-talented braggarts)

Answer 2

If you read Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example then you should be good to go. If not you could go through that book it is free online here.

Answer 3

Don't understand since you have read a couple of books and guides, why you would still need a quickstart guide to develop your own app. Rather contradicting. Why don't you just start developing an app from scratch with your awesome idea?

Anyway, to answer your question, try Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial to build a Twitter app.

Good luck!

Answer 4

How about this one? http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html