Looking for best practices on architecting Rails applications.
I'm learning Rails through building an application that is similar to Twitter but which charges for each post (I know this is contrived, but it's the next step from a simplistic example application for me). I'm hoping this will teach me about authentication, integration with OAuth APIs, payment processing and overall Rails development.
I have been going through the http://www.railstutorial.org book and it's been very very helpful in understanding Rails basics. However, I am constantly hung up on how to either integrate various gems (i.e. devise) or create my own functionality within Rails architecture.
What are some resources people here would recommend for transitioning from a novice Rails dev to an intermediate Rails dev? I'm looking for guides, how-to's, etc. on architecture and patterns for developing an application using Rails; something that will talk about real-world experience(s). Don't get me wrong, I like going through the made-up examples as a complete novice, I need that to be comfortable with the language/framework/API, but what comes after that?
Thank you