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Show HN: Gallery of Open Source Ruby on Rails Apps
- joemellin 14y agoThat is some awesome shit!
- cglee 14y agoFor more information, see the blog post that details what we're planning on doing this time around: http://www.opensourcerails.com/relaunch/ http://www.opensourcerails.com/relaunch/
- mmahemoff 14y agoIt'd be a fantastic learning tool if one could find all projects using a certain gem or search through the code bases. GitHub searches are often too broad and will come up with projects that are less than desirable role models.
- tortilla 14y agoNice job. Looks better and easier to browse than the old site.
- DanielKehoe 14y agoGreat to see this site coming back to life. Thanks, Jacques!
- RossM 14y agoThis is great! I've been struggling to find good example apps for things like Symfony2 on the PHP side - are you planning on expanding to other languages/frameworks?
- jacquesc 14y agoYep, we'd love to expand to additional languages frameworks in the future. We'll need a core maintainer for each new gallery (we're not PHP guys) but I would happy to help set things up.
- RossM 14y agoDo let me know if you get closer to that then - I'd be interested in curating such a thing :)
- AlexMuir 14y agoI often wonder how other projects have tackled a similar problem to one I am tackling - today's example being multi-day events on a calendar. This list will make it much easier to see projects where there might be overlap. Thanks for the effort. And I love the design.
- RobertL 14y agoSpent the last half hour going through "Spree" features. This one has some real potential.
- tlrobinson 14y agoNice. I'd like to see something like this that wasn't limited to Rails app, but rather any open source app that could be deployed on PaaS providers like Heroku easily.
- up_and_up 14y agoTry searching on http://www.github.com http://www.github.com. There is a lot of open source apps/boilerplate listed there that you can leverage. Most of the apps listed on the OP site host code on Github.
- jacquesc 14y agoGood idea, we have something similar in mind. Would love to chat. Ping me if you're interested.
- slurry 14y agoWas trysqlinjection.com taken?
- up_and_up 14y agoFor more information on Ruby-based tools and libraries make sure to check out the Ruby Toolbox https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/by_name https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/by_name. It's my first stop when I have a specific problem I am tackling.
- jacquesc 14y agoAgreed, I love this site! Great place to search for any and all rubygems and libraries.
- danvoell 14y agoRuby Toolbox is a great source. I think opensourcerails.com has an equal and opposite value. Often times it is difficult to visualize how all of the tools fit together, before you start. Having a site where you can look through an open source fully functional site and figure out which tools were used to create it is helpful, for the beginner.
- TheMakeA 14y agoI wish something like this existed for everything. It's incredibly easy to get left behind and just not know what is out there.
- aantix 14y agoSadly, whenever you try to suggest a project you get the message : >Project suggestions are currently under maintenance and are disabled. They will be back with a vengeance soon! But it has been this way for a long time (check out the comments below on this blog post : https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/blog/2012/07/18/State_of_the_Toolbox https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/blog/2012/07/18/State_of_the_To... ). I wish either he would take some help and ship the "improved" suggestions feature.
- krisc 14y agoGreat! I was just thinking about learning Ruby so this will be helpful when I wanna to check out real Ruby code.
- eduardordm 14y agoAround 2 years ago there was a beautiful education app on Github built with rails. I heard they got acquired by google and, all of a sudden, all sources are gone. Does anyone remember what was the name of that app?
- jacquesc 14y agoInteresting. Is it Fedena? http://www.fedena.com/ http://www.fedena.com/
- eduardordm 14y agoNo :( but it was something similar
- jacquesc 14y agoEmail me (jacques@lizibot.com) if you remember it. I'll try to track it down and revive it if I can! The old opensourcerails site directory is searchable here: http://www.opensourcerails.com/projects/ http://www.opensourcerails.com/projects/
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- pwelch 14y agoThis is awesome. Good work!
- fam 14y agoCool! Anyone know of any open source JSON REST APIs built on Rails?
- sebastianz 14y agoI just noticed one of the first apps listed, Gitlab has a json API implementation using the Grape gem, which looks very clean. https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq (check out lib/api.rb and lib/api/*) Maybe there's someone who can tell us about their experience with Grape.
- slosh 14y agoFuck yes
- shadowmint 14y agoIdly, it's a little annoying that missing the trailing / on a url breaks things. eg. http://www.opensourcerails.com/lobsters/ <--- works http://www.opensourcerails.com/lobsters <--- doesn't work Site's great tho. Good work~
- jacquesc 14y agoAh, thanks for the bug report. Issue has been fixed!
- mrinterweb 14y agoWhat a fantastic resource for anyone learning Rails. Looking at other people's code can be very educational.
- davedx 14y agoHi there, First of all, this is a fantastic resource, so thank you very much for putting it together. As somebody constantly working to improve his Rails knowledge I can see I'll get a lot out of this kind of thing. Secondly, again from a learner's perspective, what would be fantastic for me would be if you could see what's in the Gemfile for each project at a glance. This is because, similar to the enterprise Java world, a lot of my problem solving efforts with Ruby are spent on the plumbing of components to each other, so being able to look at well-coded examples of this plumbing would be incredibly helpful. Thanks again!
- nachteilig 14y agoI basically learned Rails by looking at the Spree source, so this would have been incredibly helpful. Thanks!