Interesting Rails Sites
Here is a very short list of Ruby on Rails websites that take the ideas from 37signals Basecamp and apply them to their own apps. Each of these sites offer a small web app aimed at either individuals or small companies.
- taskTHIS - this is a demo site showcasing Ruby on Rails and its AJAX support
- Blinksale - A very nice little app for sending out invoices to clients. This site uses the same kind of pricing idea as Basecamp and Backpack, where there is a limited free account and monthy fees to unlock more functionality.
If I find more sites, I will add them to this post.
Here is a site that I started out doing just to learn rails, and now is ready to go commercial: http://www.comsui.com
Total LOC is about 400 right now. J2EE would have cost me a lot more time and effort, plus at least 400 lines in just Struts config files… I think that I have drank the coolaid, and it tastes pretty good.
That is one thing that I still can not get over with Java, the amount of config files. I need several for the app server, one for Hibernate along with all the mapping files, one for log4j and whatever property files I create for my application. That is a lot of config files and I still haven’t written any code.
a nonprofit site where you can choose exactly what you want to accomplish to make the world a better place
Like James, I have also created a website to learn Rails. I’ve built this in 2 months, and it would have probably taken 8-9 in J2EE w/ Struts, Hibernate and the rest of the junk.
I started this site only about 4 months ago as a test of my Rails knowledge. I am just amazed at the outcome.
Built this small semi-social based video playlist website that you can put on your myspace: http://www.jamzee.com. This is built in rails.