# How to get Website Templates for a Ruby on Rails

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 10, 2010, 5:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-get-website-templates-for-a-ruby-on-rails/183223 "2010-02-10T05:56:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![ashishdeb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@ashishdeb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ashishdeb)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 5:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-get-website-templates-for-a-ruby-on-rails/183223/1 "2010-02-10T05:56:17Z")

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Hi Guys,

I am a ruby programmer and want to have a crack on building a online  
store website (eg.tshirt, pants, etc) using ruby on rails as it will be  
a known territory for me rather than learning php, etc.  
Anyways, I found heaps of gem like spree which will help me accomplish  
what I want to do on the programming side.  
However, I am not sure how the design aspect works. I am no designer and  
don’t think I would be able to come up with a good designs from scratch.

Do you guys know where I can get good templates for free? In ROR do you  
simply get any templates in html and can incorporate that into your  
code?  
I found heaps of normal html template websites but I am not sure whether  
you are meant to use something special for ROR.  
Also, what role do CSS Templates have to play in the ROR based website.

Help would really much be appreciated as I am trying to have basic  
website layout and design setup so that I can build my application  
around it.

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**Author:** ![ashishdeb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@ashishdeb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ashishdeb)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 6:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-get-website-templates-for-a-ruby-on-rails/183223/2 "2010-02-10T06:23:03Z")

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Ashish Deepak4 wrote:

> Hi Guys,
> 
> I am a ruby programmer and want to have a crack on building a online  
> store website (eg.tshirt, pants, etc) using ruby on rails as it will be  
> a known territory for me rather than learning php, etc.  
> Anyways, I found heaps of gem like spree which will help me accomplish  
> what I want to do on the programming side.  
> However, I am not sure how the design aspect works. I am no designer and  
> don’t think I would be able to come up with a good designs from scratch.
> 
> Do you guys know where I can get good templates for free? In ROR do you  
> simply get any templates in html and can incorporate that into your  
> code?

Yes.

> I found heaps of normal html template websites but I am not sure whether  
> you are meant to use something special for ROR.  
> Also, what role do CSS Templates have to play in the ROR based website.

CSS is essential to _any_ Web development or design work. For use with  
Rails, though, check out Sass.

> Help would really much be appreciated as I am trying to have basic  
> website layout and design setup so that I can build my application  
> around it.

Best,  
–Â  
Marnen Laibow-Koser  
[http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org)  
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