Rails Composer is a quick way to build Rails starter applications.

Now I’ve released Rails Composer with a collection of Bootstrap page templates.

Give it a try! Generate a Rails application with Rails Composer and select Bootstrap as your front-end framework. You’ll get an option to install any of 23 different Bootstrap page templates.

Here’s how to run Rails Composer:

$ rails new myapp -m https://raw.github.com/RailsApps/rails-composer/master/composer.rb

For a quick demo, choose “Build a RailsApps example application.”

Build a starter application? 1) Build a RailsApps example application ...

Pick a starter application such as “rails-devise-roles.”

Choose a starter application. ... 7) rails-devise-roles ...

For a front-end framework, pick “Bootstrap 3.3.”

Front-end framework? ... 2) Bootstrap 3.3 ...

Select a few more options and soon you’ll see a list of 23 different Bootstrap page templates.

Add Bootstrap page templates? 1) None 2) 1 Col Portfolio 3) 2 Col Portfolio 4) 3 Col Portfolio 5) 4 Col Portfolio 6) Bare 7) Blog Home 8) Business Casual 9) Business Frontpage 10) Clean Blog 11) Full Width Pics 12) Heroic Features 13) Landing Page 14) Modern Business 15) One Page Wonder 16) Portfolio Item 17) Round About 18) Shop Homepage 19) Shop Item 20) Simple Sidebar 21) Small Business 22) Stylish Portfolio 23) The Big Picture 24) Thumbnail Gallery

Try number 14, “Modern Business,” to see a truly impressive website. Most of the Bootstrap page templates are single page templates that replace the default starter application home page. But “Modern Business,” “Blog Home,” “Business Casual,” and “Clean Blog” contain multiple pages you can use for your web application.

If you’d like to see what all the templates look like, browse the Start Bootstrap website for a gallery of Bootstrap themes & templates. You can use any of the templates for free under Apache License v2.0 license terms. I asked David Miller, the creator of Start Bootstrap, if I could include the templates in Rails Composer and he encouraged me to do so. A big thanks to David Miller and his Start Bootstrap team for their generosity!

Everyone who contributed to the Kickstarter campaign deserves big thanks, as well. It’s the people who purchase the Capstone Rails Tutorials or who contributed to the Kickstarter campaign who keep the RailsApps project alive.

Please try the new feature and let me know if it needs improvement. You can open a GitHub issue and give me your feedback.