Related to this but somewhat off-topic: I just worked through Michael Hartl's RoR tutorial[1] and early on he mentions that it's depressing to work on something with absolutely zero style. (He uses Blueprint to jumpstart the process and then gives chunks of CSS along the way, so that what you're looking at as you work is never awful/empty/unstyled.) Along those lines but even more fully-baked, I just found Pilu's[2] web-app themes[3] in a recent blog post[4]. Maybe everyone who does Rails knows about these, but they were new to me.<p>[1] <a href="http://railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book" rel="nofollow">http://railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book</a><p>[2] <a href="https://github.com/pilu" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/pilu</a><p>[3] <a href="http://pilu.github.com/web-app-theme/" rel="nofollow">http://pilu.github.com/web-app-theme/</a><p>[4] <a href="http://blog.bryanbibat.net/2011/01/03/starting-a-professional-rails-app-with-haml-rspec-devise-and-web-app-theme/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.bryanbibat.net/2011/01/03/starting-a-professiona...</a>
This is my blog post. Not much to see atm. I'm only validating if there's enough interest at the moment. Didn't expects it to get posted to HN.<p>That being said, any feedback on the idea are greatly welcome :)
For those who don't know Marc-Andre he is an accomplished developer who created <a href="http://code.macournoyer.com/thin/" rel="nofollow">http://code.macournoyer.com/thin/</a> (used by big sites like Heroku.com) and he also wrote <a href="http://createyourproglang.com/" rel="nofollow">http://createyourproglang.com/</a> which has sold over 500 copies.