Question

I’ve been going through Ruby (and Ruby on Rails) tutorials online such as RubyMonk, Codeschool courses, the Railstutorial, and Learn Ruby the Hard Way.

These are all excellent resources, but I feel like I need to see some Ruby code that is actually being used in production in order to advance to the next level. I would assume that a repo like Rails would be considered advanced level – so I’m looking for something a little in-between.

Are there some GitHub public repos that are using a more intermediate difficulty level of Ruby coding that I can learn from?

If you can recommend some that would be an appropriate follow-up based on the contents of the tutorials I listed earlier, that would be great.

I’ve looked some myself, but I’m asking for recommendations because I want to make sure I’m studying something that is “the right way” to do Ruby and not learning bad habits.

Answer 1

Here’s two I’ve created:

• http://github.com/rails3book/ticketee – A light-weight project management system from the http://manning.com/katz‘>Rails 3 in Action book.
• http://github.com/radar/forem – A forum engine for Rails 3 applications.

Both should have pretty good examples of intermediate code, along with tests.