Question

Please advice me some really great Ruby on Rails 3 application which i can use like example of best practices in Rails 3. The idea is i want to have the app on my hdd which i can use like reference when i have any questions how to implement some feature. It could be any blog engine, or app like Redmine does not matter but it should have almost all elements/functionality which is used to have any web application. And it should be done by using best practices from Ruby and Rails 3 point of view.

Answer 1

There are definitely many apps on github to learn from. However a lot of solutions are very unique for particular contexts and everyone is always at some stage in their learning. Even in the best apps you should be able to find plenty to disagree with.

Here’s a list of a few notable ones.

This is rubygems.org, strong community effort, has a lot of neat practices: https://github.com/rubygems/gemcutter

This project isn’t necessarily best practices, but it’s so loud and has so many people involved in working out all kinds of initially-written crap, that it may shape into something interesting: https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora

This is a popular e-commerce rails app for you to build upon. Haven’t read the code, but again, it’s pretty popular, which means, well supported by community: https://github.com/railsdog/spree

For more check out awesome github’s explore page: https://github.com/explore.

P.S. Bucketwise is a Rails2 app created by Jamis Buck (of 37signals and Rails core). It’s still worth watching even if you’re looking for Rails 3 insights.