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railsbridge/docs — explained in plain English

Analysis updated 2026-06-26

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tl;dr

A small Ruby web app that hosts free beginner-friendly Ruby on Rails workshop materials, including step-by-step computer setup guides and an introductory Rails project called Suggestotron.

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    What It Does
      Hosts workshop materials
      Install guides
      Beginner curriculum
    Tech
      Ruby
      Sinatra framework
    Content
      Suggestotron project
      Multi-OS setup guides
      Multi-language support
    Audience
      Workshop organizers
      Beginner coders

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what do people make with this?

VIBE 1

Host your own copy of the RailsBridge curriculum for a local coding workshop or bootcamp

VIBE 2

Use the step-by-step installation guides to help beginners set up Ruby and Rails on any operating system

VIBE 3

Adapt the Suggestotron curriculum into a custom beginner Rails course in another language

VIBE 4

Contribute translations of the workshop materials into a new language by adding a new subdirectory

what's the stack?

RubySinatra

how it stacks up fr

railsbridge/docsopenblockchains/awesome-blockchainscesarferreira/dryrun
Stars3,7793,7793,795
LanguageRubyRubyRuby
Setup difficultyeasyeasymoderate
Complexity2/52/52/5
Audiencedeveloperdeveloperdeveloper

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how do i run it?

Difficulty · easy time til it works · 5min
App code is MIT licensed, curriculum content is Creative Commons Attribution, you can reuse and adapt both as long as you credit the source.

in plain english

The RailsBridge Documentation Project is a small Ruby web application that hosts the teaching materials used at RailsBridge workshops. RailsBridge is a community organization that runs free programming workshops aimed at people who are underrepresented in tech. The app is deployed publicly and serves two main collections of content: installation guides that walk new students through setting up Ruby, Rails, and Git on their own computers, and beginner curriculum materials for learning web development with Rails. The installation guides cover the many different combinations of operating system and version that workshop attendees might arrive with. Because a room full of students brings an unpredictable mix of Mac, Windows, and Linux machines at various versions, the guide must branch through many paths to handle each case. The curriculum includes a project called Suggestotron, which is the introductory Rails application students build during the workshop. The content files are stored in a sites directory organized by language code. English content lives under sites/en. Spanish and other languages get their own subdirectory and can be served separately by setting an environment variable before starting the server. Each content file can be written in a few formats: a custom step-based format designed for workshop instructions, standard Markdown, or a slide deck format. Running the app locally takes two commands after cloning the repository. The application is built with Sinatra, a lightweight Ruby web framework. The documentation content is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution, meaning anyone can reuse or adapt it with credit, while the application code itself is under the MIT license.

prompts (copy fr)

prompt 1
I want to run a Rails beginner workshop. Show me how to clone and start the railsbridge/docs app locally so I can preview and customize the curriculum
prompt 2
Help me add a Portuguese translation of the RailsBridge Suggestotron curriculum by following the language subdirectory pattern used in the docs repo
prompt 3
I'm a beginner following the RailsBridge curriculum. Walk me step by step through what I build in the Suggestotron project and what Rails concepts it teaches
prompt 4
Show me how to write a new workshop instruction step in the custom step-based format used by the railsbridge/docs Sinatra app

Frequently asked questions

what is docs fr?

A small Ruby web app that hosts free beginner-friendly Ruby on Rails workshop materials, including step-by-step computer setup guides and an introductory Rails project called Suggestotron.

What language is docs written in?

Mainly Ruby. The stack also includes Ruby, Sinatra.

What license does docs use?

App code is MIT licensed, curriculum content is Creative Commons Attribution, you can reuse and adapt both as long as you credit the source.

How hard is docs to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is docs for?

Mainly developer.

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