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.