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I am looking for a simple way to implement simple "coming soon" (pre-launch) page for my project on Ruby on Rails. User should be able to leave an email in order to be notified when project is launched.

Is there such a plugin\gem? Or I should do it myself...

Konstantin
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Launching Soon is a rails plugin. It also integrates with MailChimp or Campaign monitor.

coreypurcell
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I hope people don't interpret this as shameless self-promotion but I've just implemented exactly that functionality in a web service. It's called ComingSoonApp http://comingsoonapp.com. Besides capturing the email addresses, it also embeds your google analytics code so that you can see how traffic is building to your site.

Denis Hennessy
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  • Thanks, Denis. Your web service is definitely worth a look. I am still curious about RoR plugin/gem with similar functionality though. – Konstantin Nov 19 '09 at 12:58
  • Not running it any more? Just shows a message about sending an email to purchase the domain... –  Sep 20 '11 at 18:03
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Here is a Ruby on Rails tutorial showing how to create a “beta launching soon” application for a startup prelaunch site with a signup page. You can clone the rails-prelaunch-signup repository for the complete example application on github. It uses Devise gem for authentication and user management, and you will learn a lot from following the tutorial.

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Similar to Coming Soon like the other answer, I use a product (I don't work for them) called Prefinery. http://www.prefinery.com/. It lets you put up a form on your site (you just include some javascript) and beta testers can sign up.

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