# mattbrictson/rails-template

My former app template for Rails 7. All recommendations you see here have been moved to https://github.com/mattbrictson/nextgen

Repository: https://github.com/mattbrictson/rails-template
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/rails-template
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: rails, boilerplate, heroku, rails-generators, vite
Archived: true
Last push: 2023-12-18T20:07:18+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4233, "days_push": 989, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1071, forks 219 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:28.167883+00:00)

## What it is
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 It is no longer maintained; its recommendations have been moved to the successor project nextgen.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
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: abandoned
- function: boilerplate, build-tool, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, developer-tools, backend
- platform: ruby, cli
- tags: rails-template, rails-7, vite, heroku, application-template, postgresql, superseded-by-nextgen, boilerplate, web-server

## Member repositories
- mattbrictson/rails-template (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:28.167883+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T08:33:37.181253+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mattbrictson/rails-template (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:28.167883+00:00, sha 8a37a136b1cd)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.