Show HN: Gallery of Open Source Ruby on Rails Apps

[up_and_up]

For more information on Ruby-based tools and libraries make sure to check out the Ruby Toolbox https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/by_name.

It's my first stop when I have a specific problem I am tackling.

[aantix]

Sadly, 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_To... ). I wish either he would take some help and ship the "improved" suggestions feature.

[danvoell]

Ruby 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]

I wish something like this existed for everything. It's incredibly easy to get left behind and just not know what is out there.

[jacquesc]

Agreed, I love this site! Great place to search for any and all rubygems and libraries.

[davedx]

Hi 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!

[AlexMuir]

I 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.

[cglee]

For more information, see the blog post that details what we're planning on doing this time around: http://www.opensourcerails.com/relaunch/

[mmahemoff]

It'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.

[tlrobinson]

Nice. 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]

Try searching on 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]

Good idea, we have something similar in mind. Would love to chat. Ping me if you're interested.

[eduardordm]

Around 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]

Interesting. Is it Fedena? http://www.fedena.com/

[RossM]

This 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]

Yep, 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.

[krisc]

Great! I was just thinking about learning Ruby so this will be helpful when I wanna to check out real Ruby code.

[shadowmint]

Idly, 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]

Ah, thanks for the bug report. Issue has been fixed!

[tortilla]

Nice job. Looks better and easier to browse than the old site.

[nachteilig]

I basically learned Rails by looking at the Spree source, so this would have been incredibly helpful. Thanks!

[mrinterweb]

What a fantastic resource for anyone learning Rails. Looking at other people's code can be very educational.

[fam]

Cool! Anyone know of any open source JSON REST APIs built on Rails?

[sebastianz]

I 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 (check out lib/api.rb and lib/api/*)

Maybe there's someone who can tell us about their experience with Grape.

[DanielKehoe]

Great to see this site coming back to life. Thanks, Jacques!

[pwelch]

This is awesome. Good work!

[joemellin]

That is some awesome shit!

[slosh]

Fuck yes

[slurry]

Was trysqlinjection.com taken?