Applications using Ruby on Rails

I am continuing with my research on RoR, which is more towards work possibilities in RoR rather than the actual technical know how. I am currently trying to explore what new work is being done in the RoR space and also the business areas (with examples) which have adopted it.

I came across some interesting facts – details are below for your reading :

RoR has been used in a lot of business areas – Project Management Tools have been built using it, CMS and Blogging sites have been built on RoR, Image Galleries, E-Commerce sites, Social Network and Communities and a host of other areas. I have collected some companies which are working in these areas – found the data in some forum, found it interesting so am sharing here.

Product Category	Name of Product
Project Management Tools	ClockingIT
	Tracks
	Notes
CMS & Blogging	Radiant CMS
	Typo
	Mephisto
Image Galleries	Albumdy
	Gullery
E-Commerce	Spree
	Substruct
	EcomPages
Social Network & Communities	CommunityEngine
	EchoWaves
	Insoshi
Others	Malir
	Warehouse
	RubyURL

What these applications show is the robustness and wide range of features that RoR has inbuilt in it – and how flexible it is to be tweaked and used in any area required. Starting from an email application like Malir* to a social media application like Twitter.

* - Malir is an open source email application that can be used with any IMAP server.

Out of all these areas eCommerce is one where I think a lot of applications will be built using RoR. We at Mindfire have capability to handle any type of work but since we think eCommerce has a lot of potential we are focusing more on such applications – we have our new employees build shopping cart applications so that they learn RoR in a more hands on way and at the same time learn about eCommerce site development.

Hope this blog was useful/relevant :) ..let me know your views and let me know any specific trend or type of data that might interest you – I will be happy to dig down into it and present you my findings.

Ruby on Rails (RoR)

At Mindfire we have been working in RoR for quite some time so I thought of sharing with all what we have learned over the years and what expertise we have developed. I will be posting a series of blogs where I will cover all new things happening in RoR world as well as new things that we at Mindfire are doing.

Now lets 1^st understand what RoR is all about.

What is RoR ?

Ruby on Rails (RoR) is a programming language used to build interactive and engaging web applications. Rails is an open source web application framework written in Ruby language. It slashes development time and increases the simplicity of coding for dynamic web sites. RoR is a widely used programming language capable of providing rich user experience.

Some blogs/forums i found useful are :

http://www.hotscripts.com/category/ruby-on-rails/web-sites/ has useful links to different blogs and forums.

http://www.networkedblogs.com/blog/ruby_on_rails_agile_web_development/

http://www.softwaredeveloper.com/features/best-ruby-on-rails-061307/

Some interesting information I found (from some blog) :

Important websites that use Ruby on Rails are Crunchbase, BaseCamp, Hulu, SpiceWorks, Penny Arcade, Twitter, Xing, and Yellowpages.com.

That looks like a good list and shows hows good RoR is.

Incase you are interested in attending some conferences in RoR keep visting this site – would keep you informed of the important ones. (http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/)

Our Expertise :

Please find the below link containing details on the work capabilities we have at Mindfire.

http://www.mindfiresolutions.com/ruby-on-rails-ror-development.htm