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High Quality Ruby on Rails Example Applications

97 points by fogus 17y ago

bryanwoods 17y ago
These are all pretty good examples. That being said, I recently spent some time reading through the source of both Gemcutter.org and RailsDevelopment.com and found both to be very educational to me personally: http://github.com/engineyard/rails_dev_directory http://github.com/engineyard/rails_dev_directory http://github.com/qrush/gemcutter/ http://github.com/qrush/gemcutter/
- qrush 17y ago
  Aww, thanks :)
dtf 17y ago
These look great. Anyone know any similar examples for Django?
- percept 17y ago
  Maybe EveryBlock (considering the source)? http://code.google.com/p/ebcode/ http://code.google.com/p/ebcode/
  - ubernostrum 17y ago
    Depending on the audience, maybe. I've not looked at the code, but I know it has some very specific design assumptions and a number of weird corner cases baked in which might not make it a good general-purpose example.
- forsaken 17y ago
  Everyblock is a bit complex. Nathan Borror's Basic Apps are pretty solid examples: http://github.com/nathanborror/django-basic-apps http://github.com/nathanborror/django-basic-apps
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leeskye 17y ago
Has anyone used spreecommerce?
mhartl 17y ago
I'm the principal author of one of these example apps (Insoshi, a social networking platform developed as part of YC Winter '08). It's a bit out of date (running on Rails 2.2), but still quite decent. I'm currently working on a Rails tutorial book that will include a fully up-to-date and (I hope) high-quality sample Rails app; keep an eye on http://www.railstutorial.org/ http://www.railstutorial.org/ for more details. You should follow the project on Twitter at http://twitter.com/railstutorial http://twitter.com/railstutorial for all the latest news. Note: some major announcements are coming soon. :-)
bhrgunatha 17y ago
It's nice to see some more complex examples with a summary of the plugins and related technologies. But mainly I'm commenting to be able to find this easily later. It's a shame HN doesn't have a save link option.
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- WALoeIII 17y ago
  I believe simply up voting moves it into your Saved list. http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=WALoeIII http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=WALoeIII - mine http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=bhrgunatha http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=bhrgunatha - yours
  - bhrgunatha 17y ago
    Oh - thanks. I never noticed.

97 points by fogus 17y ago

These are all pretty good examples. That being said, I recently spent some time reading through the source of both Gemcutter.org and RailsDevelopment.com and found both to be very educational to me personally: http://github.com/engineyard/rails_dev_directory http://github.com/engineyard/rails_dev_directory http://github.com/qrush/gemcutter/ http://github.com/qrush/gemcutter/

qrush 17y ago
Aww, thanks :)

dtf 17y ago

These look great. Anyone know any similar examples for Django?

percept 17y ago
Maybe EveryBlock (considering the source)? http://code.google.com/p/ebcode/ http://code.google.com/p/ebcode/
- ubernostrum 17y ago
  Depending on the audience, maybe. I've not looked at the code, but I know it has some very specific design assumptions and a number of weird corner cases baked in which might not make it a good general-purpose example.
forsaken 17y ago
Everyblock is a bit complex. Nathan Borror's Basic Apps are pretty solid examples: http://github.com/nathanborror/django-basic-apps http://github.com/nathanborror/django-basic-apps
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leeskye 17y ago

Has anyone used spreecommerce?

mhartl 17y ago

I'm the principal author of one of these example apps (Insoshi, a social networking platform developed as part of YC Winter '08). It's a bit out of date (running on Rails 2.2), but still quite decent. I'm currently working on a Rails tutorial book that will include a fully up-to-date and (I hope) high-quality sample Rails app; keep an eye on http://www.railstutorial.org/ http://www.railstutorial.org/ for more details. You should follow the project on Twitter at http://twitter.com/railstutorial http://twitter.com/railstutorial for all the latest news. Note: some major announcements are coming soon. :-)

bhrgunatha 17y ago

It's nice to see some more complex examples with a summary of the plugins and related technologies. But mainly I'm commenting to be able to find this easily later. It's a shame HN doesn't have a save link option.

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WALoeIII 17y ago
I believe simply up voting moves it into your Saved list. http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=WALoeIII http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=WALoeIII - mine http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=bhrgunatha http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=bhrgunatha - yours
- bhrgunatha 17y ago
  Oh - thanks. I never noticed.