Ask HN: What have you built with Rails lately?

#1

Post by mijustin » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 10:26 AM UTC

I know RoR isn't as fashionable as it used to be.

But I also know that there are tons of Rails devs out there still making cool stuff.

What have you built lately?

Re: Ask HN: What have you built with Rails lately?

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Post by mijustin » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 10:27 AM UTC

My friend and I are building Transistor.fm, running Rails 5.2 in production. Here's an example of the app:

https://saas.transistor.fm

Re: Ask HN: What have you built with Rails lately?

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Post by jkostolansky » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 10:45 AM UTC

I've built LocaleData - a simple translation management platform for Ruby on Rails apps: https://www.localedata.com/

Re: Ask HN: What have you built with Rails lately?

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Post by pawurb » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 10:45 AM UTC

Still work in progress... makes some nice pocket money though https://pawelurbanek.com/profitable-slack-bot-rails

Re: Ask HN: What have you built with Rails lately?

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Post by doutatsu » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 10:47 AM UTC

I've built a scheduling website for a community I run that watches anime in VR. Use Rails 5.1 with Vue and Webpacker. It's finally not hard to have modern front-end stack while retaining the power of RoR on the backend. http://vranimesociety.com/

Re: Ask HN: What have you built with Rails lately?

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Post by alvesjtiago » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 10:58 AM UTC

I've been using Rails for quite some time and recently built a couple of different projects using it (still my favorite framework):

- Communities List (http://www.communitieslist.com/) & Closeknit (http://www.closeknit.co/) for finding and building communities;

- 24agenda (https://www.24agenda.com/en) an appointment management solution currently deployed in Portugal;

- SciShare (http://www.sci-share.com/) a scientific reference management platform;

- Octotrack (https://www.octotrack.com/) a dependency and security manager for rails projects;

Re: Ask HN: What have you built with Rails lately?

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Post by kylefox » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 12:48 PM UTC

I’m building Rewardful, a way to setup affiliate programs with Stripe.

https://www.getrewardful.com/

I debated what stack to use. I thought maybe I should use this as an opportunity to go deep into Node + React or Vue, or maybe Laravel.

Ultimately I decided to stick to what I know best — my end goal is to build a business, not experiment.

In the end this turned out to be a good decision because WOW are there a lot of moving parts to doing affiliate software correctly & robustly. It would’ve probably doubled development time if I had simultaneously been mastering a new stack.

The app is built in boring old Rails & Bootstrap. But not a single customer has mentioned the tech - they only care that Rewardful solves their problem. This experience has been a good reminder about what matters!

Re: Ask HN: What have you built with Rails lately?

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Post by phawk » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 4:06 PM UTC

I’ve been building https://payhere.co/ a payments platform to help entrepreneurs and small businesses sell more products and memberships online.

My agency alternatelabs.co uses Rails for nearly all our projects as we think it’s still the most productive framework for building most businesses in 2018.

Re: Ask HN: What have you built with Rails lately?

#9

Post by BowBun » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 7:00 PM UTC

I'm busy building http://diyrss.info.

I'm hoping to fill a personal need for a tool to help me keep up to date with blogs and other sites I follow. I hate notification spam, so I'm trying to centralize it on one app.

Also been learning some varied deploy practices. Explored my way through Docker and Gitlab integrations, checked out Google Cloud. After all of that I still preferred running a bare linux server while I'm pretty much the only one using it.