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Ask HN: What have you built with Rails lately?

15 pointsby mijustinalmost 7 years ago
I know RoR isn&#x27;t as fashionable as it used to be.<p>But I also know that there are tons of Rails devs out there still making cool stuff.<p>What have you built lately?

8 comments

kylefoxalmost 7 years ago
I’m building Rewardful, a way to setup affiliate programs with Stripe.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.getrewardful.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.getrewardful.com&#x2F;</a><p>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.<p>Ultimately I decided to stick to what I know best — my end goal is to build a business, not experiment.<p>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 &amp; robustly. It would’ve probably doubled development time if I had simultaneously been mastering a new stack.<p>The app is built in boring old Rails &amp; 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!
meeslesalmost 7 years ago
I&#x27;m busy building <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;diyrss.info" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;diyrss.info</a>.<p>I&#x27;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&#x27;m trying to centralize it on one app.<p>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&#x27;m pretty much the only one using it.
alvesjtiagoalmost 7 years ago
I&#x27;ve been using Rails for quite some time and recently built a couple of different projects using it (still my favorite framework):<p>- Communities List (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.communitieslist.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.communitieslist.com&#x2F;</a>) &amp; Closeknit (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.closeknit.co&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.closeknit.co&#x2F;</a>) for finding and building communities;<p>- 24agenda (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.24agenda.com&#x2F;en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.24agenda.com&#x2F;en</a>) an appointment management solution currently deployed in Portugal;<p>- SciShare (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sci-share.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sci-share.com&#x2F;</a>) a scientific reference management platform;<p>- Octotrack (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.octotrack.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.octotrack.com&#x2F;</a>) a dependency and security manager for rails projects;
phawkalmost 7 years ago
I’ve been building <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;payhere.co&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;payhere.co&#x2F;</a> a payments platform to help entrepreneurs and small businesses sell more products and memberships online.<p>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.
doutatsualmost 7 years ago
I&#x27;ve built a scheduling website for a community I run that watches anime in VR. Use Rails 5.1 with Vue and Webpacker. It&#x27;s finally not hard to have modern front-end stack while retaining the power of RoR on the backend. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vranimesociety.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vranimesociety.com&#x2F;</a>
pawurbalmost 7 years ago
Still work in progress... makes some nice pocket money though <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pawelurbanek.com&#x2F;profitable-slack-bot-rails" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pawelurbanek.com&#x2F;profitable-slack-bot-rails</a>
jkostolanskyalmost 7 years ago
I&#x27;ve built LocaleData - a simple translation management platform for Ruby on Rails apps: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.localedata.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.localedata.com&#x2F;</a>
mijustinalmost 7 years ago
My friend and I are building Transistor.fm, running Rails 5.2 in production. Here&#x27;s an example of the app:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;saas.transistor.fm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;saas.transistor.fm</a>