--- title: "BaseApp: a quick start for your Rails App" kind: article slug: baseapp-a-quick-start-for-your-rails-app created_at: 2008-09-28 tags: - General - Ruby - Ruby on Rails - Rails - BaseApp --- BaseApp is no longer maintained. There is a very good alternative called bort. For the impatient: http://github.com/ariejan/baseapp Got issues? Feature requests or patches? http://baseapp.lighthouseapp.com/ Every Rails developer has at least once developed an application that needed user authentication and some basic UI features like tabs and a sidebar. Ask yourself now: "how often have you installed and extended the restful_authentication plugin?". Yes, I have done it quite a few times and everytime I find myself writing the same code over and over again. User login, password reset, 'forgot password' functionality. I've build the same basic UI over and over again. Added administrator users and roles. Are you tired of doing the same old things over and over again? I was! So, I created BaseApp. BaseApp is a Ruby on Rails application which contains a lot of code you want in your project by default. To give you an idea of what is does out of the box: