Best 10 categorized Ruby on Rails applications

Ruby on Rails (RoR) is a powerful open source MVC model web application framework for the Ruby programming language to develop rapid and easy web applications on Mac OS X platform by favoring convention over configuration , which the Rails Developer must follow. A lot of database driven dynamic web 2.0 websites can be built using RoR, as part of Rails web application development and Rails Consulting.

 

Popular Ruby on Rails websites

• Twitter
• Basecamp
• Scribd
• Yellowpages
• Kongregate
• Penny Arcade
• Campfire
• Funnyordie
• 43things
• Pitchfork

Best 10 RoR apps

• Tracks
• Redmine
• Substruct
• LovdByLess
• JobberBase
• Radiant
• XL Suite
• Onyx
• Warehouse
• Chuck’s List

Some of the best Rails applications in various categories are selected and its functionalities are given below:

1. Tracks – Project management app

Tracks is a web-based advanced open source multi-user to-do-list application which runs on cross-platforms such as Mac OS X, Windows XP and Linux. Tracks is a free app licensed under the GNU GPL. It has a slick interface and provides a high usability with Ajax and Drag & Drop capabilities. Tracks can specify user tasks that can be categorized, tagged, scheduled and starred.

The application has a powerful feed support like iCalendar and RSS aggregators and supports Charts for measuring progress. Tracks also enable easy integration with other apps with its API. It provides a lightweight interface for mobile phones.

2. Redmine – Project management app

Redmine is a flexible open source project management application that has news, files, Gantt chart, calendar, wiki, forums and documen  ts management. The project support e-mail and RSS feeds and comes with time tracking functionality. The application supports cross-platform, cross-database like MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite and Multilingual.

3. Substruct – e-Commerce system

Substruct integrates e-commerce system and a content management system with blogging capabilities. Its product and ord  er management allows easily tracking of the inventory, displays sales reports, create static content or customer support. It supports Authorize.Net and PayPal as the payment gateways.

4. Lovd By Less - Social networking platform

Lovd by Less is an open-source social networking platform for community building that integrates Flickr and YouTube. It pro  vides some useful functionality such as blogs with comments, photo gallery, user following, events updates, Emails, profile, Dashboard and instant messaging.

5. JobberBase – Job board

JobberBase is an an open source PHP & MySQL based port of JobberRails for providing hosting a niche job board quickly and easily. Jobs can be posted without an account and users can search for  the jobs (with an Ajax search interface) and apply to them. JobberBase provides RSS feed for the listings and offers a widget to post the job listings on any website. The job posts and URL addresses are SEO-friendly.   

6. Radiant  – CMS

Radiant is a powerful open source content management system with an elegant interface. Radiant provides flexible templates wit h layouts, snippets, dynamic content/hierarchical pages, and a custom tagging language. It comes with a special page-oriented Plugins called Behaviors A simple user management/rights system.It also provides support for Markdown and Textile as well as HTML, but text filters can be created for any markup language. Radiant is licensed under the MIT License.

7. XL Suite – ERP/CRM

XL Suite provides support for online business management with a full stack CRM and ERP system features using rich intern  et applications (RIA). It contains amazing features such as Contact list management with import/export capabilities, integrated webmail, and newsletter, Product Management with inventory and payments, web content management with multi-domain, RSS and user / group system with access control.

8. Onyx – Photo Manager & Image gallery

Onyx is an open source image gallery which is clean, intuitive, flexible, custom-themes, and fast. It provides support to classify images, uploading images from computer
or a direct URL built-in RSS aggregator Image Viewer and Slideshow Comments.

9. Warehouse – Subversion browser system

Warehouse is a simple and powerful web-based subversion browser which provides access to multiple repositories that  can be managed from the same interface without hassles of running a number of commands. The users can be increased with different access controls.

10. Chuck’s list – Classified ads syste

ChucksList, named after Chuck Norris, is an open source classified ad system which is similar in functionality to CraigsList, which is
very fast and performs exceedingly well. It provides Customizable Titles, Keywords, Descriptions & even URLs. It supports unlimited category-wise text-based search, Image Upload and Email Verification. It comes with a simple, clean and easy to use interface.