The beginner-level stuff is bountiful but I am having trouble tracking down anything beyond the basics. Could anyone list/link where do you go for more advanced how-to's with Ruby on Rails and/or some opensource projects that are readable and "best practices"-like?<p>Thanks in advance.
<a href="http://rebuilding-rails.com/" rel="nofollow">http://rebuilding-rails.com/</a> by Noah Gibbs is a nice resource if you find it helpful to understand things at a lower layer of abstraction. It is particularly useful for giving you the background that you can do something like replacing controllers with middlewares in order to increase modularity/testability (see <a href="https://gocardless.com/blog/coach/" rel="nofollow">https://gocardless.com/blog/coach/</a>).
There's a long list on <a href="https://github.com/ekremkaraca/awesome-rails" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ekremkaraca/awesome-rails</a>, the most "grown up" app might be <a href="https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq</a><p><a href="https://rubyweekly.com/" rel="nofollow">https://rubyweekly.com/</a> collects advanced articles, conference summaries, new tools. I prefer it over blogs or individual tutorials.
Railscasts has been extremely helpful for me (<a href="http://railscasts.com/);" rel="nofollow">http://railscasts.com/);</a> and now all the content is free!