Here you'll find a number of rebar templates. Put them in your ~/.rebar/templates dir. To get started with a Nitrogen app, named foobar, run: rebar create template=nitro appid=foobar A web app using webmachine: rebar create template=webm appid=blaha Another web app, without Nitrogen, but using SimpleBridge: rebar create template=mobile appid=moblog After creating the source from the templates, read the README.