OpenSourceRails.com now live

Posted 3 months ago by jacques | 8 comments

With the amazing open source apps that are being released almost every week in the Rails community, I thought we might need a place to track them all and keep everyone up to date. So as of today, I’m announcing opensourcerails.com, a gallery of sorts for Open Source Ruby on Rails applications.

Here’s a rundown of the initial features:

The OpenSourceRails homepage shows the latest applications promoted to the front page, with the ability to bookmark, rate, and download applications It also provides basic tagging and search capabilities.

The Application detail page shows you the details of the project along with screenshots, file downloads, and demo links. Any member can submit their own screenshots, files, and links for any application.

Submitting an application will bring you to a blank project page where you can set its details, upload screenshots, files, and links for that project. Once its ready, you can then submit it to the gallery where it will show up on the “Upcoming” list. After being approved and vetted by the community, it will then be promoted to the front page.

Lots more features coming over the next couple weeks (like OpenID). Subscribe to the site’s RSS to get the latest projects as the bulk of the initial population occurs over the next few days.

View OpenSourceRails.com


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  1. Marcelo Goncalves 3 months ago
    Pixel

    Hi!

    Nice work for Open Source Rails. You could add Open Source Rails itself as an application! Won't you share it's code?

    Thanks!

  2. jacques 3 months ago
    Pixel

    Hey Marcelo. Good call on my complete inconsistency! Actually the plan from the beginning was to release the source code for OpenSourceRails, the only current blocker is that I dont have redistribution right to the design I'm using. Currently its in the process of a redesign and I'll release it as an open source project on GitHub in a few weeks.

  3. Pixel

    When OpenSourceRails become open source ? ;-)

    pleas contact me by mail.

  4. Pixel

    "When OpenSourceRails become open source ? ;-)"

    me too

  5. Pixel

    Will do

  6. Pixel

    contact me about opensourcerails, please

  7. joanne basecki 12 days ago
    Pixel

    Hi, I will be there for the next meetup with Rails presentation by you. The site Open Source Rails actually has most functions I would like to achieve on my site I openly described in a post (within our meetup forum... under title "collective idea anyone?"...) I can see you are busy but would it be at all possible to arrange some consulting? I am a teacher, not a programmer, and would like desperately make my project a reality. ebasecki at gmail Could you possibly email me?

    Joanne Basecki aka Emma

  8. bigbet 6 days ago
    Pixel

    When OpenSourceRails become open source ? ;-)

    pleas contact me by mail.

    bigbet@126.com