Still a bit skeptic about the whole Ruby on Rails thing?  I have collected seven great open-source apps that are written in Ruby on Rails and can be used straight out of the box. Most of them have great looking interfaces and a large user force supporting them. One of my favorites is LovdByLess. A creative looking social network site with nice features and infrastructure.

Warehouse – Subversion Management

Never before has there been a web-based Subversion browser that is as beautiful as it is simple. Imagine being able to quickly give users fine grain access to your repositories without the hassle of having to ssh into your server and run a bunch of commands.

website warehouseapp.com

Tracks – Getting Things Done

Tracks is a web-based application to help you implement David Allen’s Getting Things Done™ methodology. It was built using Ruby on Rails, and comes with a built-in webserver (WEBrick), so that you can run it on your own computer if you like. Tracks is Open Source, free and licensed under the GNU GPL.

website rousette.org.uk

LovdByLess – Social Network

New social networks launch everyday, most start with the same basic features. Bloggers have wordpress, mephisto and other open source solutions. Lovd offers a free open source social network platform.

website lovdbyless.com

JobberRails – Job Board

JobberRails is a port of JobberBase, an open source php job board. It’s purpose is to provide a way to quickly and easily host a niche job board.

website jobberrails.com

Spree – E-commerce

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.

website spreehq.org

Mephisto – Content Management Systeem

Mephisto is a free Ruby-based weblog-engine which combines the quality, functionality and user-friendliness of other systems in a simple, elegant and powerful user interface.

website mephistoblog.com

ChucksList – Ad System

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.)

website chuckslist.org

If you have any great additions, please let me know and I will add them to the list.

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