# Exemplary Rails 2.1 app? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [August 16, 2008, 3:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/exemplary-rails-2-1-app/146018 "2008-08-16T03:53:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Phlip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Phlip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Phlip)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 3:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/exemplary-rails-2-1-app/146018/1 "2008-08-16T03:53:47Z")
Railsters: An exemplary Rails 1.x app is Beast, for example. I have always been able to download it and experiment with it, to try extracurricular Rails experiments from a good base. Without the burden of writing my own app (gee, maybe an online forum, for example!). What’s a good example of a public Rails 2.1 app? I suspect Beast does not do 2.1 yet. Something like a blog, wiki, or dashboard that I could download, play with, and make an example of? – Phlip ---
**Author:** ![Phlip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Phlip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Phlip)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 4:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/exemplary-rails-2-1-app/146018/2 "2008-08-16T04:58:40Z")
I’ve written a rails application in 2.1, and whilst it’s probably not your definition of “exemplary” it’s an application none the less. > **[GitHub - radar/rboard: A fully featured forum system compatible with Rails 2.3](https://github.com/radar/rboard)** > > A fully featured forum system compatible with Rails 2.3 - GitHub - radar/rboard: A fully featured forum system compatible with Rails 2.3 ---
**Author:** ![Phlip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Phlip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Phlip)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 5:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/exemplary-rails-2-1-app/146018/3 "2008-08-16T17:29:25Z")
> I’ve written a rails application in 2.1, and whilst it’s probably not > your definition of “exemplary” it’s an application none the less.[GitHub - radar/rboard: A fully featured forum system compatible with Rails 2.3](http://github.com/radar/rboard) Tx! Now your migration fails on this line: ``` u = UserLevel.find_by_name("User") u.position = 1 ``` The fix: rake db:migrate:reset VERSION=20080730091145 rake db:fixtures:load rake db:migrate Going forward, I too don’t know what the best practice is, between fixtures and migrations, to prime a database with the correct initial data… – Phlip ---
**Author:** ![Phlip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Phlip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Phlip)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2008, 4:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/exemplary-rails-2-1-app/146018/4 "2008-08-17T16:37:47Z")
Altered Beast is a Rails 2.x rewrite of Beast: [http://github.com/courtenay/altered\_beast/tree/master](http://github.com/courtenay/altered_beast/tree/master) –Jeremy On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Phlip [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > download, play with, and make an example of? > > – > Phlip > > > – [http://jeremymcanally.com/](http://jeremymcanally.com/) [http://entp.com/](http://entp.com/) > **[Omg GIFs | GIFDB.com](https://gifdb.com/omg)** > > Download Omg GIFs for Free on GifDB. More than 56 Omg Animated GIFs to download. My books: > **[Ruby in Practice](https://www.manning.com/books/ruby-in-practice)** > > Like Ruby itself, Ruby in Practice will make you more productive. The book shows you practical techniques and strategies for small projects and large-scale environments. A cookbook-style reference, it gives you concrete examples of systems... [http://humblelittlerubybook.com/](http://humblelittlerubybook.com/) (FREE!) ---
**Author:** ![Phlip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Phlip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Phlip)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/exemplary-rails-2-1-app/146018/5 "2008-08-16T17:36:26Z")
Next, I seem to be missing some sphinxie goodness: undefined method `define\_index’ for #Class:0xb6e7d658 from /home/phlip/tools/rboard/app/models/post.rb:8 Commenting out the define\_index block lets me run the specs, with only 2 failures. I will just clobber them. (Curiously, the failures don’t say “sphinx”, but that thing is a son- of-a-bitch to test, so I don’t blame you for skipping it!) And in conclusion, thanks for the new toy! – Phlip ---
**Author:** ![Phlip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Phlip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Phlip)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/exemplary-rails-2-1-app/146018/6 "2008-08-18T23:07:31Z")
I think the ‘initial’ project aspires to be an exemplary 2.x app: [http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum\_id=26161](http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=26161) HTH, -Roy