Ask HN: Learning Ruby/RoR -- Which open source projects should I learn from?

[apsurd]

It's ruby time! I ditched xp for ubuntu to streamline my quest into ruby/rails. I followed the guides @ http://guides.rubyonrails.org/ which are very helpful, thanks!

Can the rails veterans recommend some open source projects I can learn from? I'm looking for best practices and well structured code to model after. Thanks HN.

[mc]

For fun, I dove into this recently. The only strong opinion I have is for Rails projects to ship with Cucumber as means for acceptance testing. Here are a few good Rails projects which satisfy that.

* The Rails Dev Directory: http://github.com/engineyard/rails_dev_directory/

* Spree: http://github.com/railsdog/spree

* And Gemcutter: http://github.com/qrush/gemcutter. Gemcutter also uses Gemfile.

* Fat Free CRM: http://github.com/michaeldv/fat_free_crm. It doesn't use Cucumber, but it's still good code.

If you want to get setup with Rails 3.0, check out this gist I wrote: https://gist.github.com/50be644a99ff372d5b1f

[adelevie]

http://github.com/binarylogic/authlogic_example

Teaches you how to use the Authlogic plugin for authentication. Uses neat things like before_filters, helpers, partials, layouts, and more.

Good luck!

[pook]

the Pickaxe Book is maybe the best resource on starting Ruby. The Poignant Guide ought to be its preface.

http://ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/

Also, check out the Rubyquiz. It's a weekly programming challenge much in the spirit of Project Euler; something to cut your chops on.

http://rubyquiz.com/

Edit: These aren't quite what you're asking for, but you'll find plenty of very elegant code to study.

[percept]

Reminded me of this RubyFlow thread (more Ruby than Rails):

What are real-world prime examples of good Ruby code? http://www.rubyflow.com/items/1817

[3ds]

don't miss out on _why's poignant guide to ruby: http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/

[crazydiamond]

Since you are looking for open source projects you can study the source of: Rails itself, Highline (JEG), Choice, Shooes (GUI).