Ask HN:Where can I find open sourced rails apps?

2 points by subrat_rout 13y ago ↗ HN

If somebody is a novice programmer (in ruby on rails) then should he develop the app from scratch or use any open source app for his idea? Anybody know where I can find good open source rails app especially for developing a CMS?

Thanks

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rickdale 13y ago ↗

check out refinerycms

ambertch 13y ago ↗

check out copycopter and bcms as well.

Honestly I'd say this depends on your goals - are you trying to learn? Or just make something (either answer is fine)? If the former, build. The latter, plug something in.

jaxonrice 13y ago ↗

Check out RailsApps - https://github.com/RailsApps and http://railsapps.github.com/. It's a bunch of open source Rails 3.2 example apps and tutorials. I found it extremely useful when building my first applications.

subrat_rout 13y ago ↗

Thanks Jaxon, This looks like a great place to start.

codegeek 13y ago ↗

Not sure sepcifically about rails but I usually go to github and search for the keyword there. It shows me a list of all projects under that keyword and you can possibly filter through that to "watch" the ones you are interested in?