For me, the RailsApps tutorials and sample applications are about doing a quick spike to see how a feature might be done, and then going back and figuring out h

For me, the RailsApps tutorials and sample applications are about doing a quick spike to see how a feature might be done, and then going back and figuring out how to do that same feature your own way, to suit your own purposes. In this sense, refactoring one of the rails apps sample apps is the coding equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel.