> you will have to filter through a bunch of examples that may be several years old No need for that now, search for "rails examples" and you'll find the Rails

> you will have to filter through a bunch of examples that may be several years old No need for that now, search for "rails examples" and you'll find the RailsApps project with useful example apps, all up to date (Rails 3.2) and kept current by a growing community of contributors: http://railsapps.github.com http://railsapps.github.com.