Projects

Part of our manifesto at RailsRocket is open-source software. Open-source software is a great way to contribute to the community, not to mention to learn from experts in a particular language.

As such, you can find below a list of RailsRocket-powered open-source projects. You can click on any project name to see the project page, where you can find out more about that software (plus get a list of all posts where we talk about building aspects that particular piece of software). Download them, poke around the code, and learn from them. Together, the code and the articles should turbo-charge your Rails education.

Enjoy! And hey, if you feel like it, contribute a little. It’s all in the spirit of open-source!

• Launchpad: A Ruby-on-Rails content management system and blogging platform. It aims to be feature-rich, similar to other blogging platforms, such as WordPress. It’s geared especially towards community-driven websites.
• WebWrench: A static website generator. You provide an HTML layout, some content files in the markup language (similar to Textile), and it churns out the resulting HTML. Useful for small websites, such as for RubyForge project sites. Great for keeping your HTML DRY!
• PlainRL: A pure Ruby roguelike game. Rather than having any special features, it contains only those features most common to most roguelike games. It’s a great starting-point to branch your own, more specific roguelike.