Looking for solid code base to learn from

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I've worked through most of the Agile book and while the depot application is nice, I could use more of a code base.

Does anyone have suggestions for a nice open source project with solid code? Right now I'm looking at Radiant but am a bit concerned that I'm going to pick up bad practices since it's alpha.

Thanks.

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There is a forum project called Beast that is said to be well written and short (<1000 lines). The blogging package Mephisto is also well regarded. There is also Radiant the CMS system but that may be bigger than you want.

I would start with Beast as it is short and work up from there.

Michael

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Michael,

2 sites you should read from cover to cover :

* The Rails Way   ex:    http://www.therailsway.com/2006/12/8/idiomatic-ruby

* the { buckblogs :here }   ex:     Buckblog: Dereferencing fixtures     Buckblog: Raising the right exception     Buckblog: Faking cursors in ActiveRecord

Alain Ravet

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