mattbrictson/rails-template resource

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Rails 7 application template by Matt Brictson that scaffolds new projects with opinionated best practices, Vite integration, PostgreSQL, and Heroku deployment configuration. It is no longer maintained; its recommendations have been moved to the successor project nextgen.

Use cases

• scaffold a new rails 7 app with best practices
• rails app template with vite and postgresql
• bootstrap a rails project ready for heroku deployment
• opinionated rails boilerplate with rubocop and testing setup
• generate a rails app from a template.rb file

When to choose

• you want a battle-tested, opinionated Rails 7 starting point with Vite and PostgreSQL preconfigured
• you deploy to Heroku and want deployment config out of the box
• you want to study the template's documented best practices via the author's blog posts

When to avoid

• you need an actively maintained template - use mattbrictson/nextgen instead
• you use Rails versions other than 7.x or databases other than PostgreSQL
• you prefer minimal, unopinionated Rails scaffolding

Facets

learning-resource · maturity abandoned

boilerplate build-tool developer-tools web-development developer-tools backend ruby cli rails-template rails-7 vite heroku application-template postgresql superseded-by-nextgen boilerplate web-server

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