A collection of awesome projects, sites made with Rails. Inspired by other awesome-* stuffs. (see "Notable Awesome Stuffs" part below)
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Here are open-sourced Rails projects with their sources itself, not as a gem, and their live demos.
Name
Description
Link
publify A self hosted Web publishing platform on Rails
Live
obtvse2 A clean and simple markdown blogging platform on Rails
Live
Community Management
Name
Description
Link
discourse A platform for community discussion
Live
loomio A collaborative decision-making tool that makes it easy for anyone
campo A lightweight forum application, base on Ruby on Rails
Live
onebody A private member portal for churches built with Ruby on Rails
calagator An event aggregator based in Portland, OR
Crowdfunding & Fundraising
Name
Description
Link
gitlabhq Open source software to collaborate on code
Live
rubygems.org The Ruby community's gem hosting service
Live
hound Review your Ruby, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, and SCSS code for style guide violations with a trusty hound.
Live
Name
Description
Link
quant Quant is a prototype/experiment of a personal health tracker
dgi-db Rails frontend to The Genome Institute's drug gene interaction database
popHealth An Open Source Population Health Reporting Prototype
Live
Name
Description
Link
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
Name
Description
Link
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
Name
Description
Link
growstuff An open source/open data project to create a website for food gardeners
Live
inaturalist Open source Rails app behind iNaturalist.org
OpenFarm A free and open database for farming and gardening knowledge
Live
Name
Description
Link
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
Name
Description
Link
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
Name
Description
Link
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
houston Mission control for your projects and teammates
taskboard An app that improves your distributed team's ability to follow best practices in visual management
Live
hours A complete time registration app for teams
Name
Description
Link
diaspora Distributed and contextual social networking
coderwall Professional network for software engineers
Live
follow-all Follow all the members of a Twitter list with a single click
Live
Name
Description
Link
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
Live
spokenvote A social voting app for reaching consensus in a group of any size
Live
Name
Description
Link
bike_index An online bike registry
racing_on_rails Manage a bike racing association: riders, teams, calendars, competitions, and results
Miscellaneous (Not Categorised Yet)
Name
Description
Link
feedbin A simple, fast and nice looking RSS reader
brimir Email helpdesk built using Ruby on Rails and Zurb Foundation
Live
lobsters Rails code running the lobste.rs link aggregation site
juvia A commenting server similar to Disqus and IntenseDebate
Live
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
sharetribe A platform for setting up your own peer-to-peer marketplace online
AsakusaSatellite A realtime chat application for developers
sanataro Simple Web Household Account Book. built with Ruby on Rails
opencongress An open website for opening Congress
rletters Web application designed to perform digital humanities research tasks on a database of journal articles
scholarsphere A web application for ingest, curation, search, and display of digital assets
opensit An open source meditation community
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
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
reservations Manages reservations for equipment (allows student reservations)
ekylibre Simple agricultural ERP
calcentral An online portal that provides a unified and personalized one-stop way to access email, calendars, shared documents and class collaboration spaces
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
Live
Here are projects which are not open sourced but known that is made with Rails.
Name
Description
Link
Shopify A simple and unified API to do everything you need to sell in person
Live
Contributions, pull requests are welcomed!
Here I listed below sites, projects that is on-air now or ready for production (with some minor changes). For packages or gems, I suggest you to check other awesome stuffs. E.g. for Content Management Systems or CMS; I suggest to check out this list .