- Projects with a Stable Release
- Projects in Development
- Stalled Projects
- Other Projects / Projects Not Yet Categorized
You might also want to take a look at the Rails category on RubyForge.
OpenSourceRails also has a gallery of open source Ruby on Rails applications that is kept reasonably up to date.
Projects with a Stable Release
RESTORE, backup and recovery
RESTORE is an free open source enterprise network backup and recovery solution for Windows, Novell, Mac OS X (data fork), Unix, and Linux systems. It is scalable to a complete backup solution for multiple workstations, servers, and data centers. It operates over local area networks, wide area networks, and the Internet.
| Current version: | 4.0.0 |
| Author: | Ruffdogs Software, Inc |
| License: | GPL |
| Project Site: | http://restore-backup.com |
CheckItOut
CheckItOut is a Ruby on Rails application to manage personal money accounts.
| Current version: | 1.0 |
| Author: | Flornet |
| License: | GPL |
| Project Site: | http://checkitout.flornet.fr/ |
| Demo: | http://demo.checkitout.flornet.fr |
rTPlan
rTPlan is a Ruby on Rails application for project task planning.
It is independent from the used project model. You can define a project, add tasks and associate users. Users can report their work and managers can generate reports of the project status.
| Current version: | 0.3.2 |
| Author: | Simon Martinelli |
| License: | GPL |
| Project Site: | http://rtplan.rubyforge.org/ |
| Demo: | http://rtplan.martinel.li (User name: sm) |
RAM – Ruby Asset Manager
RAM is the premiere open-source, role-based, access-controlled digital asset manager for Ruby on Rails. It was built from the ground up to be fast, secure and efficient platform for the distribution, aggregation and tracking of online digital assets.
| Current Stable Version: | 1.0.0 |
| Author(s): | Mark Daggett, Garry Dolley |
| License: | MIT |
| Project Site: | http://www.locusfoc.us/ram/ |
| Source Code: | http://www.locusfoc.us/ram/pages/downloads/ |
| Real-world example: | http://ram.locusfoc.us/ |
Ruby on Rails Online Rostering System
An Online Rostering System for cafe’s / small shops / anywhere that needs a roster. Has a manager’s login to make the rosters with, and a user’s login where they can look at their roster for any given week.
| Current version: | 1.0 |
| Author: | Chris Hulbert |
| License: | GPL |
| Project Site: | http://rosters.rubyforge.org/ |
Hieraki2 – Wiki Meets Online Doc System
bq. In short: Wiki & Hierarchy = Hieraki2
WikiGardening required: the links to the domain ‘hieraki.org’ seem to be dead! – on Nov. 26 2007.
Hieraki2 is an open source web content management system that allows you to organize digital documents in a hierarchical tree structure. Hieraki2 builds upon a new wiki system infrastructure providing for an easy way to write modular extensions for existing or new wiki page types. The term “wiki page” refers to the data structure that encapsulates text or binary data. The software uses an access control list to protect documents from being edited by unauthorized users.
| Current Stable Version: | 2.0.1 |
| Author(s): | Tobias Luetke, Alexander Horn |
| License: | MIT |
| Project Site: | http://www.hieraki.org/ |
| Dev Site: | http://dev.hieraki.org/ |
| Source Code: | http://dev.hieraki.org/ |
| Real-world Examples: | http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/ |
Typo – Weblogging Engine
Typo provides a fast and easy way to start a weblog and manage it with a rich desktop client application like MarsEdit or ecto.
| Current Stable Version: | 4.0.3 |
| Next Milestone: | 4.1 |
| Author: | Tobias Luetke |
| License: | MIT |
| Project Site: | http://www.typosphere.org |
| Dev Site: | http://trac.typosphere.org |
| Real-world Examples: | http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/ (The official Rails blog) |
| – | http://blog.leetsoft.com/ (The blog for which it was originally made) |
| – | http://www.robbyonrails.com/ |
| – | more at: http://www.typosphere.org/trac/wiki/TypoPowered |
FreeMIS – Management Information System for Schools
FreeMIS provides an open source alternative to the commercial MIS packages used in schools. It is UK-centric at the moment.
| Current Stable Version: | 1.05 |
| Author: | Robert Jones |
| License: | GPL |
| Project Site: | http://www.freemis.net |
| Demo Site: | http://demo.freemis.net |
| Repository: | http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/freemis/trunk/ |
Substruct
Substruct is a cleanly designed, simple e-commerce platform for you to run your site.
It includes:- A smoking Admin panel with content management, order management, product tagging, product management, customer response, faq management and role-based access control.
- AJAX (and standard) shopping cart views
- Payment processing tie into Authorize.net
- Real time shipping quotes via FedEx
| Current Version: | 0.7 |
| Author: | Subimage Interactive |
| License: | Artistic |
| Project Site: | http://dev.subimage.com/projects/substruct |
| Demo: | http://substruct.subimage.com |
RubyTimeTracker v1.0
The Ruby Time Tracker began it’s life as an internal time tracking tool for Lunar Logic Polska. It’s simple to use, easy to extend, and flexible enough for any small business that tracks time spent on projects for billing purposes.
| License: | MIT |
| Project Site: | http://code.google.com/p/rubytime/ |
Lohimedia – A Wiki Based on the Open Source Model.
Lohimedia (formerly OSWiki) is a wiki engine which uses the open source model for editing articles. Instead of allowing anyone to edit every article users must first prove themselves by making useful contributions. As a user proves trustworthy she will gain more and more privileges.
| Current Stable Version: | 0.5.1 |
| Next Milestone: | 0.6.0 |
| License: | Apache License 2.0 |
| Dev Site: | http://sourceforge.net/projects/lohimedia/ |
| Demo: | http://www.lohipedia.com |
NorfelloCMMS
NorfelloCMMS OS is a powerful CMMS application. It enables organizations to easily manage labor, equipment and service requests via web based interface. This leads to increased efficiency of labor usage and reduced time spent on maintenance tasks.
NorfelloCMMS OS is targeted to any organization that handles maintenance tasks or has equipment to track. From heavy industry maintenance management to managing computer network equipment, NorfelloCMMS can be customized to meet the requirements of various different domains.
| Current Version: | 1.0.1 |
| Next Milestone: | 1.0.2 |
| Author: | Norfello Oy |
| License: | GPL |
| Project Site: | http://cmms.norfello.com/cmms |
| Demo: | http://demo.norfello.com/ |
| Documentation: | http://www1.norfello.com/products/norfello-cmms-os/documentation/ |
| Google Groups: | http://groups.google.com/group/norfellocmms |
Lovd by Less
LovdbyLess is a free, open source social networking platform. It provides basic features for building your own social network or online community.
Features include: following a user, mutual friending, user-to-user messaging, profile comments, user blogs with comments, photo gallery with captions, site search for friends, profile customization, user dashboard, emailed activity, Flickr integration and YouTube integration.
| Rails Version: | 2.0.2 |
| Author: | Less Everything |
| License: | MIT license |
| Project Site: | Lovd by Less |
| Demo: | Try Lovd |
| Documentation: | Lovd Technical Notes |
| Google Groups: | Lovd Google Group |
| Git Repository: | Lovd Git Repository |
| Bug Tracking: | Lovd Bug Tracking |
Projects in Development
ChucksList
ChucksList is an open source Ruby on Rails-based classified ad system, similar in functionality to CraigsList. (Named after the one and only Chuck Norris.)
| Current Version: | 0.1 |
| Next Milestone: | 0.2 |
| License: | GPL |
| Site: | http://chuckslist.rubyforge.org/ |
| Project Page: | http://rubyforge.org/projects/chuckslist/ |
| Demo: | http://chuckslist.heroku.com/ |
RailsDB
RailsDB is a web application written in Ruby using the Ruby on Rails web framework. RailsDB provides a generic interface to popular open source databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. The RailsDB project is currently under heavy development.
| Current Version: | 0.2 |
| Author: | Greg Donald |
| License: | GPL |
| Project Site: | http://railsdb.org/ |
XLsuite
XLsuite is a CRM / CMS system that aims to be a complete business management engine. Current stable modules include contact management, forums, advanced search, import engine, file manager and a basic CMS. Product catalog, and sequential auto responders are now underway.
| Version: | 0.8.1 |
| Next Milestone: | 0.9 |
| Author: | IXLD Media Inc |
| License: | Creative Commons |
| Site: | XLsuite.org |
Boxroom
Boxroom is an open source project that aims to develop a web application for sharing and managing files online. The goal is to let a group of people share their files with eachother. To make this possible the application lets users create folders and up/download files in a web browser. Furthermore for administrators it will be possible to create users, user groups and the CRU/D rights these groups will have on folders.
| Current Version: | 0.6.2 |
| Next Milestone: | 0.7 |
| Author: | Mischa Berger |
| License: | MIT |
| Site: | http://boxroom.rubyforge.org/ |
| Project page: | http://rubyforge.org/projects/boxroom |
Doxroom
Doxroom is a fork of Boxroom with internationalization, tagging, helpers to index content, advanced search filter, operations on multiple files, batch upload of files which are already in the server filesystem, basic versioning and some other tweaks. Currently Linux specific.
| Current Version: | 1.0a2 |
| Next Milestone: | 1.0a3 |
| Author: | MarcelloDL |
| License: | GPL |
| Site: | http://doxroom.com/ |
| Project page: | http://code.google.com/p/pizzaboxroom/ |
Retrospectiva
Web based project management tool for software development projects.
It features issue tracking, a code browser (Subversion SVN), changeset and revision management, a wiki, an integrated announcement blog, and support for multiple repositories and projects.
Retrospectiva focusses on simplicity, security, stability, usability and active development.
| Author: | Dimitrij Denissenko |
| License: | MIT |
| Current Version: | 1.0.0 |
| Upcoming Version: | 1.1 M1-snapshot |
| Project Site & Demo: | http://www.retrospectiva.org/ |
OpenAppDotOrg
OpenAppDotOrg is a rapid business application builder. It does this by providing an extensive domain specific components on top of a popular RAILS-based framework. For example invoice module can be created quickly and mixed with customer data from Salesforce type of web services.
- Basic user services
- Framework for building Enterprise 2.0 business components
- Dynamic UI building specific for business components
- Integration plugins for popular business components like SalesForce
- Core inegration with web application frameworks written in languages like Java and PHP
| Download License: | LGPL |
| Project Site: | http://www.openapp.org/dev |
Goldberg
Goldberg is a website development tool for Ruby on Rails that provides user management, role-based security, site navigation via menus that are dynamic depending on each user’s role, and content pages (a very basic CMS).
It allows you to get a full website up and running in Rails quickly.
| Current Version: | 0.1 |
| Author: | Urbanus |
| License: | Public Domain |
| Project Site: | http://www.goldberg.240gl.org |
| Dev Site: | http://rubyforge.org/projects/goldberg |
| Demo: | (Project site, above) |
url.markr
url.markr is a personal bookmark manager written in Ruby on Rails. It has support for tagging of bookmarks, RSS feeds of links for each tag, inline editing of bookmarks and tag autocompletion. You can now also import your existing del.icio.us bookmarks and search functionality has been included.
| Current Version: | 0.1 |
| Author: | Joey Walsh |
| License: | GPL |
| Project Site: | http://urlmarkr.org/ |
| Source Code: | http://urlmarkr.org/index.fcgi/browser |
| Download: | http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/15050/urlmarkr-0.1.tar.gz |
GAL – Gestione Aziendale Libera
A business accounting software application, originally designed for Italian laws and regulations.
| Current Version: | 0.10 |
| Author: | AddSW |
| License: | GPL |
| Project Site: | http://gal.sourceforge.net |
| Demo Site: | http://gal.railsplayground.com |
| Repository: | http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gal/trunk/ |
WagN – Wiki + adaptive data structuring
WagN is a merger of Wiki and Tagging—not just a wiki with tagging, but wiki and tags all mashed up together. WagN aims to do for data and data structure what wiki does for content- make it accessible, organic, and evolvable.
| Current Version: | 0.3.1 |
| Next Milestone: | 0.4.0 |
| Author: | Lewis & Ethan at GrassCommons |
| License: | GPL |
| Project Site: | http://wagn.org |
| Live Site: | http://hooze.org |
| Download+SVN: | http://rubyforge.org/projects/wagon/ |
F->IT, F-ing easy FTP client
F->IT is an easy to use FTP client that resembles Windows Explorer. With it, you can:
- Drag and drop folders and files.
- Edit highlighted source files.
- Upload multiple files.
| Current Version: | 0.0.1 |
| Author: | Jupiter Information Technology Solutions |
| License: | MIT |
| Project Site: | http://fit.jupiterit.com |
| Dev Site: | http://code.google.com/p/f-it/ |
| Demo: | http://fit.jupiterit.com |
Collaboa – Project Tracker
Collaboa is a project tracker, inspired by Trac. Plugging directly into Subversion, it currently sports: a repository browser and changeset viewer, a lightweight ticketing system for tracking bugs etc. (more things are planned for the future). It’s still in the early stages of development, but perfectly usable and self-hosted.
| Current Version: | 0.5.6 |
| Author: | Johan Sorensen |
| License: | MIT |
| Project Site: | http://collaboa.org |
| Dev Site: | http://collaboa.org/development |
| Demo: | http://dev.collaboa.org |
LogiLogi Manta
LogiLogi Manta wants to make ongoing and insightfull philosophical discussions possible. Core values are openness, relativism and quality. It can be described as wiki, tagging, rating and hierarchy in one. The gorillas in the room are Wikis, Blogs, and especially discussion Forums/mailing-lists.
| Author: | Wybo Wiersma |
| License: | GPL |
| Project Site: | http://en.logilogi.org/LogiLogiManta |
| Pre-Alpha: | http://www.logilogi.org:3000/ |
RCMS – like CMS
rcms is a rails-based, document-centered publishing system. its about presentation/structuring of information.
| License: | GPL |
| Website: | http://rcms.oopen.de |
| Development and Download: | http://rcms.codecoop.org |
| Source: | http://oopen.de/bzr/rcms |
RForum – Web Forum
| Current Version: | 0.2 |
| Next Milestone: | 1.0 |
| Author: | Andreas Schwarz |
| License: | MIT |
| Dev Site: | http://rforum.andreas-s.net/trac/ |
| Demo: | http://www.ruby-forum.com/ |
Riki – An Rails Engines Based wiki
Riki is yet another wiki, but build as an Engine. This should make it easily pluggable into existing Rails applications. With simple and powerfull authentication on book and page level, it is addressed for project management, but not restricted to that of course.
| Current Version: | 0.3.1 |
| Next Milestone: | 0.4 |
| Authors: | Bart Masschelein & Mauro Cicio |
| License: | MIT |
| Dev Site: | http://smart-engines.dyndns.org/riki/ |
| Source code: | https://svn.cicio.org/var/opt/svn/public/engines/riki_engine/trunk |
| Demo: | http://smart-engines.dyndns.org/riki/ |
ozimodo – a rails tumblelog
ozimodo is a Ruby on Rails powered tumblelog.
| Current Version: | 1.2.1 |
| Author: | Chris Wanstrath |
| License: | MIT |
| Project Page: | http://rubyforge.org/projects/ozimodo |
| Project Site: | http://ozimodo.rubyforge.org |
| Demo: | http://ozmm.org |
Chameleon – Blogging Engine
Chameleon is a blogging platform focused on customization and extension. Using Chameleon, you can easily publish a wide range of different types of content, ranging from blog post to recipes, and from podcasts to photos.
| Current version: | 0.6.2 (Beta) |
| License: | MIT |
| Project Site: | http://chameleon.wikidot.com |
| Source code: | https://code.launchpad.net/chameleon/ |
BlackJax – AJAX-driven Blackjack game
It leverages the power and ease of use of RJS templates to create a simple BlackJack game.
| Author: | PJ Hyett |
| License: | MIT |
| Info: | http://www.pjhyett.com/pages/blackjax |
| Demo: | http://blackjax.pjhyett.com/ |
| Source: | http://www.pjhyett.com/files/BlackJax.zip |
Eribium – a rails cms
WikiGardening required: this project may have stalled.
Eribium is a Web 2.0, Ruby on Rails powered cms with loads of features including RSS & Atom, Tags & Tag Clouds, Overlays, Unobtrusive Javascript, File Management, Theme system and an Api.
| Author: | Alex MacCaw |
| License: | MIT |
| Project Site: | http://www.eribium.org |
| Demo: | http://alexmaccaw.no-ip.info:3000/admin |
| – | (user and pass “demo”) |
RailFrog – Drupal like CMS, but much better!
WikiGardening required: this project may have stalled.
RailFrog is a user-friendly, open-source web site deployment and content management system built with Rails; producing well structured and standards-compliant pages with Web 2.0 goodness.
| License: | MIT |
| Founders: | Robert Pierce, Steve Tendon |
| Current Release: | 0.5.2 |
| Site: | http://railfrog.com/ |
| Project: | http://dev.railfrog.com/ |
ProjectLounge Lite – Project Collaboration
ProjectLounge Lite is a project collaboration tool. It has calendars, tasks list (with Gantt view), document sharing and member management. Now in English, French and German using the globalize plugin.
License: LGPL| Launch Blog: | http://blog.projectlounge.com/2006/06/projectlounge-lite-released-to-open.html |
| Demo: | http://www.pllite.com/projects/new |
| Source: | svn://svn.projectlounge.com/open/light |
rinderbox – web frontend to Tinderbox
rinderbox is a web frontend to Tinderbox. Tinderbox is a package building system for FreeBSD ports.
| License: | BSD |
| Founders: | Robert Gogolok |
| Site: | http://rinderbox.rubyforge.org/ |
| Project: | http://rubyforge.org/projects/rinderbox/ |
OpenStreetMap – OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you.
OpenStreetMap is a project aimed squarely at creating and providing free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. The project was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive or unexpected ways.
The website front end and data access API is a Ruby on rails application.
| License: | GPL |
| Site: | http://openstreetmap.org/ |
| Wiki: | http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/ |
CleanTogether – community effort for cleaning the world
The http://cleantogether.com web site lets people post their environmental cleanup experiences. Whether you go to a beach, to a picnic, or on a hiking trip, think about how to bring some trash back home from the outdoors—not only “what you bring to nature, take back home” kind of things, but think about the other stuff that gets left behind by others. As you carry trash out, take a picture of your bag full of trash on- site (or it could be a picture of some really interesting finding that does not naturally belong to the environment), and post a blog story to the web site. Don’t forget to tell where you found it and how much it weighs.
The website front end and data access API is a Ruby on rails application.
| License: | MIT |
| Site: | http://cleantogether.com/ |
| Wiki: | http://cleantogether.googlecode.com/ |
Spree (formerly RailsCart)
Spree is a complete commerce solution for Ruby on Rails. It includes a shopping cart, admin interface, inventory model and payment gateway integration via the ActiveMerchant plugin.
| License: | New BSD |
| Site: | http://www.spreehq.org/ |
Stalled Projects
Accountomatic – Home Accounting System
This is a real-life example and, as always, a work in progress. I wrote this home accounting system in my home-grown PHP framework and was using it (warts and all) for a couple of years. When Rails came out, I converted it over and added some features in the process. Now I actually like it!
| Author: | Rick Bradley |
| Dev Site: | http://www.rickbradley.com/code/accountomatic/ |
| Demo: | http://demo-account.rickbrad |
Other Projects / Projects Not Yet Categorized
CRM Tool – Any Interest?
I’m working on a tool for internal use to manage our customers. Any interest in opening this up? Let me know what could help you, currently building this to fit our needs.
| Author: | Matt Tanase |
| Site: | Blog entry |
eXPlain Project Management Tool
Serves as a “story card librarian” for aiding in the planning and execution of the eXtreme Programming methodology.
| Author: | Jake Dempsey, John Wilger |
| Project Website: | http://explainpmt.com/ |
| Download: | http://rubyforge.org/projects/explainpmt |
| Subversion repository: | http://explainpmt.com/svn-explainpmt |
Knowledge Base
An interface for storing ideas and relating them to authors, web sites, and several other models. Intended as a home for academic writing, formal proofs, political arguments, note-taking, and p2p argumentation.
| Author: | Mike Schwab |
| License: | GPL |
| Site: http://www.officeofgreatideas.com |
Loglibrary – IRC logging and searching software
This software allows you to log, index, and browse IRC logs. It could easily be extended to log jabber conferences. For discussion, stop by #loglibrary on irc.freenode.net.
| Project Website: | http://loglibrary.com/home/about |
| Source Code: | http://www.loglibrary.com/loglibrary-0.01.tar.gz |
mailr – webmail
Mailr is a webmail. The application is tested with Courier-IMAP but it should be possible to use it with any other IMAP server.
| License: | MIT |
| Project Website: | http://mailr.org/ |
parabola – Web based feed reader
parabola is an open source web based feed reader. Among the types of feeds it handles are of course RSS and Atom.
| Website: | http://www.aeonblue.dk/projects/parabola/ |
PBX Manager – Web-based management for Asterisk
The Payment Online PBX Manager for Asterisk is an open source web management interface for the popular Asterisk pbx software.
| Website: | http://asterisk.paymentonline.net/ |
| Demo: | http://asterisk.paymentonline.net:3000/ |
RailBo – Bulletin Board and Forum engine
Railbo is a simple, lightweight message board built with Rails. Table free. I tried to keep this simple so the code can be a learning tool for novice developers. I’m happy to add features, so let me know what you’d like to see in future releases.
| Author: | Matt Tanase |
| Website: | http://railbo.rubyforge.org |
| Blog: | http://howradical.com |
Rebbin – Rails Pastebin
An open source pastebin powered by Ruby On Rails.
| Author: | Lawrence Oluyede |
| License: | BSD |
| Project Website: | http://rebbin.berlios.de/ |
| Screenshots: | http://rebbin.berlios.de/screenshots.html |
| Source Code: | http://developer.berlios.de/projects/rebbin/ |
redMine – Project Management & Issue Tracking
redMine is a flexible project management and issue tracking web application. Written using Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform, cross-database, and multilingual.
| Current Version: | 0.5.1 |
| License: | GPL |
| Project Site: | http://www.redmine.org |
| Demo: | http://demo.redmine.org |
rgallery – Photo Gallery
rgallery is an advanced photo gallery with image resizing, rotation, comments and a few features on the drawing board. Just released a 0.1 release! Get it at http://rgallery.dk !
Please note that the 0.1 version offered on 2006-06-05 on the website could not in any way be considered ready for production use – the source code even contains loads of the easiest typo, not even the most basic functions work thoroughly.
| Author: | Loke “colde” Dupont & Gitte “MamaTux” Wange |
| License: | BSD |
| Website: | http://rgallery.dk |
| Ddemo: | http://gallery.rgallery.dk |
| Download: | http://svn.rgallery.dk |
RssFwd – RSS to Email
Wrote this because 1) running another app/site to read news is a chore – gmail is my only goto and 2) desktop apps cannot sync subscriptions.
Started off only as 1 x Perl script cron job. But with Rails, it inevitably grew and become a publicly usable service.
| Author: | choonkeat |
| License: | GPL |
| Website: | http://www.rssfwd.com/ |
| Download: | http://rubyforge.org/projects/rssfwd |
| Instructions: | http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/developers |
S5 Presents – Slideshow Creation Software
Free slideshow creation software, based on Eric Meyer’s xHTML/CSS/Javascript slideshow software.
| Author: | Lucas Carlson |
| License: | GPL |
| Project Site: | http://s5presents.com/ |
Solunas – Hotel Booking Engine
The Solunas Booking Engine Software is aimed at Hotels and Holiday Homes of between 1 to 150 units who are seeking to market their accomodation over the internet. Version 2.0 is build on top of Rails.
| Author: | Marc Isemann |
| License: | GPL |
| Project Site: | Solunas |
| Source Code: | SourceForge |
SimpleTicket
SimpleTicket is an open source trouble ticket system written using Ruby on Rails version 1.0. The help desk software is perfect for small IT departments or small businesses.
| Author: | Architel |
| License: | GPL |
| Project Site: | SimpleTicket |