Yeah, it's "production ready" in the sense that the starterkit project was pulled from a couple of production apps and properly configured with a nice selection

Yeah, it's "production ready" in the sense that the starterkit project was pulled from a couple of production apps and properly configured with a nice selection of gems. Most starter kit apps help get developers up and running in a development environment but leave a big gap between dev and production. Sometimes this is good, but a lot of web apps are very similar. I got tired of rewriting authentication systems, configuring gems, and repeating the same tasks for each project. Even if you use Devise and similar gems, you still have to do a lot of work to create a good UX and integrate OAuth. And then you have to dig through each gem's documentation to make sure it's configured properly for a production environment. The rails4-starterkit is basically my dumping ground for tips, tricks, and production tuning settings for Rails 4.1. You'll still need to make adjustments for your own app, but it's a much better starting point for cranking out weekend or freelance projects. I'm also open sourcing my node starter kits, but they're much earlier on in development and better node projects already exist.