RoR && "coming soon" page

Question

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...

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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.