Building a starter app is a great way to get familiar with Rails. Which may be why there are quite a few. Maintaining a starter app is more difficult (because of frequent changes to Rails and popular gems). Which may be why the Rails roadway is littered with the carcasses of abandoned starter apps (remember Caboose, circa 2006?). The best are those (like Brian Cardarella's https://github.com/dockyard/sail_plan) that are maintained to support ongoing development by an organization.
Thanks for the kind words about the RailsApps project http://railsapps.github.com/. It thrives because of the active contributions from this enthusiastic community. BTW, I'll be announcing the newest release very soon, a Rails prelaunch app for startups http://railsapps.github.com/rails-prelaunch-signup/ (it's not quite ready for "Show HN").
Building a starter app is a great way to get familiar with Rails. Which may be why there are quite a few. Maintaining a starter app is more difficult (because of frequent changes to Rails and popular gems). Which may be why the Rails roadway is littered with the carcasses of abandoned starter apps (remember Caboose, circa 2006?). The best are those (like Brian Cardarella's https://github.com/dockyard/sail_plan) that are maintained to support ongoing development by an organization.
Thanks for the kind words about the RailsApps project http://railsapps.github.com/. It thrives because of the active contributions from this enthusiastic community. BTW, I'll be announcing the newest release very soon, a Rails prelaunch app for startups http://railsapps.github.com/rails-prelaunch-signup/ (it's not quite ready for "Show HN").