A collection of awesome projects, sites made with Rails. Inspired by other awesome-* stuffs. (see "Notable Awesome Stuffs" part below)
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| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| publify | A self hosted Web publishing platform on Rails | Live |
| obtvse2 | A clean and simple markdown blogging platform on Rails | Live |
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| discourse | A platform for community discussion | Live |
| loomio | A collaborative decision-making tool that makes it easy for anyone | Live |
| campo | A lightweight forum application, base on Ruby on Rails | Live |
| onebody | A private member portal for churches built with Ruby on Rails | Live |
| calagator | An event aggregator based in Portland, OR | Live |
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| selfstarter | Roll your own crowdfunding | Live |
| catarse | The first open source crowdfunding platform for creative projects in the world | Live |
| CrowdtiltOpen | Open source crowdfunding platform | Live |
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| gitlabhq | Open source software to collaborate on code | Live |
| rubygems.org | The Ruby community's gem hosting service | Live |
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| quant | Quant is a prototype/experiment of a personal health tracker | Live |
| dgi-db | Rails frontend to The Genome Institute's drug gene interaction database | Live |
| popHealth | An Open Source Population Health Reporting Prototype | Live |
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| canvas-lms | A new, open-source learning management system by Instructure Inc | |
| theodinproject | A project that aims to teach web development for free | Live |
| cyberdojo | Free in-browser coding-dojo | Live |
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Beatstream | App for streaming music from any computer running Ruby on Rails to anywhere | Live |
| listenup | An application that allows users to search for songs and add them to friends playlist | Live |
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| growstuff | An open source/open data project to create a website for food gardeners | Live |
| inaturalist | Open source Rails app behind iNaturalist.org | Live |
| OpenFarm | A free and open database for farming and gardening knowledge | Live |
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| tracks | A "Getting Things Done" application | Live |
| hummingbird | A modern anime discovery platform that helps you track the anime you're watching, discover new anime and socialize with other fans | Live |
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| whitehall | Inside Government: how the UK Government works, what it's doing, and how you can get involved | |
| askaway | Ask New Zealand's political parties your questions this election | Live |
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| redmine | A flexible project management web application written using Ruby on Rails | Live |
| teambox | The award-winning collaboration solution, inspired by Basecamp, Yammer and Twitter | Live |
| kanban | A Trello clone in Rails and Backbone.js | Live |
| openproject | A web based project management system built on Ruby on Rails | Live |
| people | Manage people within the projects | Live |
| WebsiteOne | A platform for online collaboration and crowdsourced project development | Live |
| houston | Mission control for your projects and teammates | |
| hours | A complete time registration app for teams | Live |
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| diaspora | Distributed and contextual social networking | Live |
| coderwall | Professional network for software engineers | Live |
| follow-all | Follow all the members of a Twitter list with a single click | Live |
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| adopt-a-hydrant | A Ruby on Rails application that allows citizens to "adopt" civic infrastructure, such as fire hydrants | Live |
| planningalerts-app | Find out and have your say about what's being built and knocked down in your area | Live |
| spokenvote | A social voting app for reaching consensus in a group of any size | Live |
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| bike_index | An online bike registry | Live |
| racing_on_rails | Manage a bike racing association: riders, teams, calendars, competitions, and results | Live |
| Generator | Ready to run | Complex Apps | Sets git | Heroku |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rails Bricks | yes | Only starting point. | no | yes |
| Rails Composer | yes, but Stripe needs to be configured | Example apps reaching a SaaS with Stripe. | yes | yes |
| Prelang | Had to modify database credentials manually | Customizable models. But no payments. | yes | no |
| Hobo | Rails version problems, if using a late version | It seems according screencast, helps a lot with MVC boilerplate. | no | no |
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| feedbin | A simple, fast and nice looking RSS reader | Live |
| brimir | Email helpdesk built using Ruby on Rails and Zurb Foundation | Live |
| lobsters | Rails code running the lobste.rs link aggregation site | Live |
| juvia | A commenting server similar to Disqus and IntenseDebate | Live |
| otwarchive | An open-source web application intended for hosting archives of fanworks, including fanfic, fanart, and fan vids | Live |
| peatio | An open-source crypto currency exchange | Live |
| openstreetmap-website | Mirror of the Rails application powering | Live |
| RapidFTR | An Android-based mobile application that lets aid workers collect, sort and share information about children in emergency situations | Live |
| danbooru | A taggable image board written in Rails 3 | Live |
| sharetribe | A platform for setting up your own peer-to-peer marketplace online | Live |
| AsakusaSatellite | A realtime chat application for developers | Live |
| sanataro | Simple Web Household Account Book. built with Ruby on Rails | Live |
| opencongress | An open website for opening Congress | Live |
| rletters | Web application designed to perform digital humanities research tasks on a database of journal articles | Live |
| scholarsphere | A web application for ingest, curation, search, and display of digital assets | |
| opensit | An open source meditation community | Live |
| fromthepage | A wiki-like application for crowdsourcing transcription of handwritten documents | Live |
| graff_mags | Upload and display collection of 2000+ graffiti magazines | Live |
| trado | lightweight, easy to use e-commerce platform designed for sole traders and SME businesses | |
| CoRM | Easier than a CRM | Live |
| leihs | An easy inventory handling system | |
| fairnopoly | A free market place in the hand of the users | Live |
| AirCasting | A platform for recording, mapping, and sharing health and environmental data using your smartphone | Live |
| reservations | Manages reservations for equipment (allows student reservations) | Live |
| ekylibre | Simple agricultural ERP | Live |
| calcentral | An online portal that provides a unified and personalized one-stop way to access email, calendars, shared documents and class collaboration spaces | Live |
| encrypt.to | Send encrypted messages by one click | Live |
| eol | Encyclopedia of Life | Live |
| crabgrass-core | A web application designed for activist groups to be better able to collaborate online | |
| alaveteli | Provide a Freedom of Information request system for your jurisdiction | Live |
| PasswordPusher | A Ruby on Rails application to communicate passwords over the web | Live |
| rentmybikes-rails | A fully functional, deployable marketplace implementation using Balanced API for Rails | Live |
Contributions, pull requests are welcomed!
Here I listed below sites, projects that is on-air now or ready for production (with some minor changes). For packages or gems, I suggest you to check other awesome stuffs. E.g. for Content Management Systems or CMS; I suggest to check out this list.
- jnv/lists - List of (awesome) lists curated on GitHub
- Other awesome lists (by update dates)