A collection of all things awesome about Rails. Inspired by other awesome-* stuffs.(see Notable Awesome Stuffs part below) Contributions and pull requests are kindly welcomed!
- Table of Contents
- Rails Official Website
- Rails Official Guide (Edge Guide)
- Rails API Documentation
- Rails Source Code
- Rails Official Blog
- Ruby on Rails Tutorial Book - Free to read online
- Agile Web Development with Rails 5
- Rails 4 Test Prescriptions
- Crafting Rails 4 Applications
- Rails 4 in Action
Sources and demos (if available) of fully or partially apps made with Rails
- publify - A self hosted Web publishing platform on Rails Live
- obtvse2 - A clean and simple markdown blogging platform on Rails
- 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
- 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
- gitlabhq - Open source software to collaborate on code Live -
- rubygems.org - The Ruby community's gem hosting service Live
- codetriage.com - Help out your favorite open source projects and become a better developer while doing it. Live
- intercityup.com - Control Panel for hosting Ruby on Rails Live
- quant - Quant is a prototype/experiment of a personal health tracker
- dgi-db - Rails frontend to The Genome Institute's drug gene interaction database Live
- popHealth - An Open Source Population Health Reporting Prototype
- 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
- Beatstream - App for streaming music from any computer running Ruby on Rails to anywhere
- listenup - An application that allows users to search for songs and add them to friends playlist Live
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Hashrobot - A social media assistant Live
- socify - an open source social networking platform written in Ruby on Rails
- RoRdit - Link aggregation web app similar with Reddit in Ruby on Rails Live
- Mastodon - GNU Social-compatible microblogging server Live
- 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
- spokenvote - A social voting app for reaching consensus in a group of any size Live
- bike_index - An online bike registry Live
- racing_on_rails - Manage a bike racing association: riders, teams, calendars, competitions, and results Live
Apps that aren't categorised yet
- feedbin - A simple, fast and nice looking RSS reader Live
- brimir - Email helpdesk built using Ruby on Rails and Zurb Foundation
- lobsters - Rails code running the lobste.rs link aggregation site
- 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
- 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
- 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
- lavish - a rails app that generates Bootstrap color scheme from an image Live
- coursemology2 - Rails 4 re-write of Coursemology
- Helpy - Rails 4 Helpdesk. Includes Multilingual Knowledgebase, Email Tickets, Community Live
- expertiza - web application where students can submit and peer-review learning objects (articles, code, web sites, etc).
- covoiturage-libre - a Carpooling Open Source platform in Rails 5
- Nanobox - A micro-PaaS (μPaaS) for creating consistent, isolated, development environments deployable anywhere https://nanobox.io.
| Generator | Ready to run | Complex Apps | Sets git | Heroku |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
- jnv/lists - List of (awesome) lists curated on GitHub
- awesome-ruby
- awesome-rails-gem
- Other awesome lists (by update dates)