AwesomeRails
A curated list of awesome things related to Ruby on Rails (recent changes were inspired by awesome-vue18k 3k )
Table of Contents
Resources
Official Resources
- Rails Official Website
- Rails Official Guide (Edge Guide)
- Rails API Documentation
- Rails Source Code45k 21k
- Rails Official Blog
External Resources
- The Odin Project
- Ruby on Rails Tutorial Book
- Learn Ruby on Rails (thoughtbot)
- Rails for Zombies
- RailsCasts
- GoRails
- Drifting Ruby
- Ruby on Windows Guides
Jobs
Community
Apps Made with Rails
- adopt-a-hydrant407 276 - A Ruby on Rails application that allows citizens to "adopt" civic infrastructure, such as fire hydrants Live
- AirCasting29 27 - A platform for recording, mapping, and sharing health and environmental data using your smartphone Live
- alaveteli230 163 - Provide a Freedom of Information request system for your jurisdiction Live
- alonetone186 47 - an independent music platform, allowing musicians to host and distribute their music in a non-commercial, easy-to-use environment. Live
- AsakusaSatellite96 18 - A realtime chat application for developers Live
- askaway32 15 - Ask New Zealand's political parties your questions this election Live
- Beatstream121 39 - App for streaming music from any computer running Ruby on Rails to anywhere
- bike_index139 42 - An online bike registry Live
- brimir1k 408 - Email helpdesk built using Ruby on Rails and Zurb Foundation
- calagator359 270 - An event aggregator based in Portland, OR
- calcentral88 90 - An online portal that provides a unified and personalized one-stop way to access email, calendars, shared documents and class collaboration spaces Live
- campo400 144 - A lightweight forum application, base on Ruby on Rails Live
- canvas-lms2k 1k - A new, open-source learning management system by Instructure Inc
- catarse1k 1k - The first open source crowdfunding platform for creative projects in the world Live
- coderwall849 379 - Professional network for software engineers Live
- codetriage.com894 290 - Help out your favorite open source projects and become a better developer while doing it. Live
- CoRM7 1 - Easier than a CRM Live
- coursemology248 57 - Rails 4 re-write of Coursemology
- covoiturage-libre42 29 - a Carpooling Open Source platform in Rails 5
- crabgrass-core74 36 - A web application designed for activist groups to be better able to collaborate online
- crowdAI66 15 - Fighting for Open Science with Open Data, a machine learning challenges platform. Live
- CrowdtiltOpen647 360 - Open source crowdfunding platform Live
- cyberdojo243 109 - Free in-browser coding-dojo Live
- danbooru602 242 - A taggable image board written in Rails 3 Live
- dgi-db4 3 - Rails frontend to The Genome Institute's drug gene interaction database
- diaspora12k 3k - Distributed and contextual social networking Live
- discourse27k 8k -A platform for community discussion Live
- ekylibre144 89 - Simple agricultural ERP Live
- encrypt.to92 15 - Send encrypted messages by one click Live
- eol60 33 - Encyclopedia of Life Live
- expertiza131 643 - web application where students can submit and peer-review learning objects (articles, code, web sites, etc).
- fairnopoly88 46 - A free market place in the hand of the users Live
- feedbin2k 272 - A simple, fast and nice looking RSS reader Live
- follow-all63 20 - Follow all the members of a Twitter list with a single click
- fromthepage91 32 - A wiki-like application for crowdsourcing transcription of handwritten documents Live
- gitlabhq22k 7k - Open source software to collaborate on code Live -
- graff_mags15 0 - Upload and display collection of 2000+ graffiti magazines Live
- growstuff278 228 - An open source/open data project to create a website for food gardeners Live
- Hashrobot41 11 - A social media assistant Live
- Helpy90 44 - Rails 4 Helpdesk. Includes Multilingual Knowledgebase, Email Tickets, Community Live
- hitobito134 37 - A web application to manage complex group hierarchies with members, events and a lot more - Live
- hours - A complete time registration app for teams Live
- houston14 1 - Mission control for your projects and teammates
- hummingbird2k 364 - A modern anime discovery platform that helps you track the anime you're watching, discover new anime and socialize with other fans
- inaturalist176 120 - Open source Rails app behind iNaturalist.org Live
- intercityup.com30 5 - Control Panel for hosting Ruby on Rails
- kanban551 209 - A Trello clone in Rails and Backbone.js Live
- lavish541 81 - a rails app that generates Bootstrap color scheme from an image Live
- leihs34 26 - An easy inventory handling system
- listenup15 0 - An application that allows users to search for songs and add them to friends playlist Live
- lobsters1k 461 - Rails code running the lobste.rs link aggregation site
- loomio2k 645 - A collaborative decision-making tool that makes it easy for anyone Live
- Mastodon18k 4k - GNU Social-compatible microblogging server Live
- mumuki-laboratory1 1 - Where students practice and receive automated and human feedback Live
- obtvse2213 65 - A clean and simple markdown blogging platform on Rails
- onebody1k 359 - A private member portal for churches built with Ruby on Rails Live
- opencongress47 25 - An open website for opening Congress
- OpenFarm524 173 - A free and open database for farming and gardening knowledge
- openproject2k 765 - A web based project management system built on Ruby on Rails Live
- opensit44 17 - An open source meditation community Live
- openstreetmap-website674 439 - Mirror of the Rails application powering Live
- ossfriday534 74 - a movement to encourage companies, people and maintainers to contribute to open source every Friday
- otwarchive335 244 - An open-source web application intended for hosting archives of fanworks, including fanfic, fanart, and fan vids Live
- PasswordPusher172 46 - A Ruby on Rails application to communicate passwords over the web Live
- peatio1k 604 - An open-source crypto currency exchange Live
- people55 33 - Manage people within the projects
- planningalerts-app34 30 - Find out and have your say about what's being built and knocked down in your area
- popHealth99 94 - An Open Source Population Health Reporting Prototype
- publify2k 4k - A self hosted Web publishing platform on Rails
- quant102 16 - Quant is a prototype/experiment of a personal health tracker
- racing_on_rails35 8 - Manage a bike racing association: riders, teams, calendars, competitions, and results Live
- RapidFTR306 371 - An Android-based mobile application that lets aid workers collect, sort and share information about children in emergency situations
- redmine3k 822 - A flexible project management web application written using Ruby on Rails Live
- rentmybikes-rails43 29 - A fully functional, deployable marketplace implementation using Balanced API for Rails
- reservations89 54 - Manages reservations for equipment (allows student reservations) Live
- rletters18 4 - Web application designed to perform digital humanities research tasks on a database of journal articles Live
- RoRdit - Link aggregation web app similar with Reddit in Ruby on Rails Live
- rubygems.org2k 776 - The Ruby community's gem hosting service Live
- sanataro59 18 - Simple Web Household Account Book. built with Ruby on Rails Live
- scholarsphere69 23 - A web application for ingest, curation, search, and display of digital assets
- selfstarter3k 1k - Roll your own crowdfunding Live
- sharetribe1k 1k - A platform for setting up your own peer-to-peer marketplace online Live
- socify44 59 - an open source social networking platform written in Ruby on Rails
- spokenvote46 51 - A social voting app for reaching consensus in a group of any size Live
- Spree10k 5k - Spree is a complete open source e-commerce solution for Ruby on Rails. Live
- stackneveroverflow - A simple Q&A platform using with markdown support.
- teambox2k 417 - The award-winning collaboration solution, inspired by Basecamp, Yammer and Twitter Live
- theodinproject713 765 - A project that aims to teach web development for free Live
- tracks914 580 - A "Getting Things Done" application Live
- trado105 33 - lightweight, easy to use e-commerce platform designed for sole traders and SME businesses
- WebsiteOne112 244 - A platform for online collaboration and crowdsourced project development Live
- whitehall512 202 - Inside Government: how the UK Government works, what it's doing, and how you can get involved
Tutorials
July 2017
- Ruby on Rails Code Audits: 8 Steps to Review Your App
- nil?, empty?, blank? in Ruby on Rails - what's the difference actually?
June 2017
- The 3 Tenets of Service Objects in Ruby on Rails
- Famous Web Apps Built with Ruby on Rails
- Connecting to Snowflake with Ruby on Rails
- (Turkish) Todo Da Ne Ki?
- Building a JSON API with Rails 5
May 2017
March 2017
February 2017
January 2017
- Integration Testing Ruby on Rails with Minitest and Capybara
- Build a RESTful JSON API With Rails 5
- Crafting APIs With Rails
October 2016
August 2016
Other Rails Tools
Platforms
- Nanobox1k 57 - A micro-PaaS (μPaaS) for creating consistent, isolated, development environments deployable anywhere Live.
Generators
| Generator | Ready to run | Complex Apps | Sets git | Heroku |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rails Composer2k 334 | 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 |
DevTools
- rails-dashboard17 2 - A dev-tool to improve your rails log.
Notable Awesome Stuffs
- jnv/lists5k 397 - List of (awesome) lists curated on GitHub
- awesome-ruby
- awesome-rails-gem