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ActiveAdmin – Administration Framework For Ruby on Rails Applications

Mufti Ali — Fri, 20 May 2011 11:15:44 +0000

Active Admin is a Ruby on Rails plugin for generating administration style interfaces. It abstracts common business application patterns to make it simple for developers to implement beautiful and elegant interfaces with very little effort.

Filtering and listing resources is one of the most important tasks for administering a web application. Active Admin provides many different tools for you to build a compelling interface into your data for the admin staff.

Built in, Active Admin has the following index renderers:

Table: A table drawn with each row being a resource
Grid: A set of rows and columns each cell being a resource
Blocks: A set of rows (not tabular) each row being a resource
Blog: A title and body content, similar to a blog index

All index pages also support scopes, filters, pagination, action items, and sidebar sections.

Active Admin’s interface was designed from the ground up for non-technical users. It makes it easy for developers to build highly usable interfaces that customers will actually enjoy using. Active Admin is released as a Ruby Gem. The gem is to be installed within a Ruby on Rails 3 application.

Requirements: Ruby on Rails 3+
Demo: http://activeadmin.info
License: Other License

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Fructose – Now You Can Compile Your Ruby Into PHP

Mufti Ali — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 07:42:10 +0000

Fructose is a subset of Ruby that’s designed to be compiled into PHP 5.x. The generated code should run on any PHP version above 5.0. Most major Ruby features are supported, including operator overloading and blocks. Eventually, most of the Ruby standard library will be available to Fructose programs via libfructose.

Fructose isn’t production ready yet, but you’re free to poke around and try it out over at the GitHub repository.

Website: http://www.fructoselang.org

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Locomotive – Open Source CMS For Rails

Mufti Ali — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 06:28:34 +0000

Locomotive is a simple but powerful CMS based on liquid templates and mongodb database. Locomotive CMS does not use a classic sql database such as mysql or postgresql but rather a nosql database named mongodb.

Features

managing as many websites as you want with one application instance
nice looking UI (see http://www.locomotivecms.com for some screenshots)
flexible content types
playing smoothly with Heroku and MongoHQ
inline editing (beta)

Locomotive has been tested it with both ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) and ruby 1.9.2.p0 which are two of ruby versions Heroku supports. Locomotive is in beta but already used in production with success.

Requirements: Ruby, Mongodb, ImageMagick,
Demo: http://www.locomotivecms.com
License: MIT license

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Holla – An Open Source Chat Application

Mufti Ali — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:43:36 +0000

Holla is a group chat application, a bit like Campfire. The UI is built in a RIA fashion – i.e. is totally asynchronous and super fast. You can create channels, then invite friends to those channels, chat and share files. The interface is totally asynchronous, which is one of the most important aspects of Holla. You can CRUD channels, add messages and upload files – all without blocking any of the UI. Any AJAX requests that need to happen, happen in the background.

Just drag and drop files onto the interface, they’ll upload in the background displaying a realtime progress bar. What’s neat, is that everybody on the channel, not just yourself, can see the file upload progress. For the fronted source management it’s used Sprockets and Less. Sprockets basically adds ‘require’ support to JavaScript, is absolutely invaluable for managing JavaScript source files – JS apps can get messy very quickly if you’re not careful. For the real-time chat, Holla uses Juggernaut 2. Juggernaut open a WebSocket connection with a Node.js backend server. The framework behind all of this is SuperApp. At its core, SuperApp is a state machine which splits up your JS logic into separate modules.

Requirements : Ruby 1.9.2+, MySQL, Redis, Bundle
Demo : http://getholla.com/
License : MIT License

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Most Popular Ruby Based Open Source Social Networking Platform

Mufti Ali — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 00:04:14 +0000

Ruby on Rails is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language. It is intended to be Used with an Agile development methodology That Is Used by Web developers for rapid development.
There are lots of Websites That use it including popular ones like Twitter, github, Scribd and many more. If you are planning to build a social networking site using ruby on rails. You should to consider most popular social networking platform below, which was built using ruby on rails.

Diaspora

Diaspora is an open source social networking application in Ruby on Rails. It includes most of the features to be expected like friendships, status messages, photos, etc. Diaspora aims to be a distributed network, where totally separate computers connect to each other directly, will let us connect without surrendering our privacy.They call these computers ‘seeds’. A seed is owned by you, hosted by you, or on a rented server. Once it has been set up, the seed will aggregate all of your information: your facebook profile, tweets, anything.

Diapora considered to be a Facebook alternative by many sources. Today, Diaspora, a potential rival for Facebook, released its open source code, inviting designers and programmers to help shape the network. But his unique, one of the people who contributed to fund the development of diaspora is the CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg.

Insoshi

Insoshi is a social networking platform in Ruby on Rails. You can use Insoshi to make custom social networks; see the Insoshi demo site for an example. Features include activity feeds, profiles, photo sharing, comment walls, blogs, forums, user messaging, and an admin panel.It’s on GitHub, so you can fork it to your heart’s content, and it can act as a base for developing your own social Web application.

Insoshi was originally developed by Michael Hartl and Long Nguyen as part of the Y Combinator program, and is presently maintained by Evan Dorn and Logical Reality Design.

CommunityEngine

CommunityEngine is a free, open-source social network plugin for Ruby on Rails applications. Community Engine is a plugin that can add social networking features to existing Rails applications. Drop it into your new or existing application, and you’ll instantly have all the features of a basic community site.

Features

user profiles, blogs
private messaging
forums
events
plugin
photo uploading
clippings, static pages
commenting
friendship
activity feeds and localization.

LovdbyLess

LovdbyLess is a free and fully customizable social networking platform, built using Ruby on Rails. Built with Ruby On Rails, LovdByLess is feature rich and allows for social interaction on every level.It comes with many of the same features and functionalities of its loved-by-more counterparts, Myspace and Facebook.

Features

blogs with comment capabilities
photo galleries with captions
profile bio and information
the ability to follow a user or “friend” them
site search for friends
user-to-user messaging
profile comments
user dashboard (recent activity feed)
emailed activity
flickr integration
youtube integration

Lovd By Less has the edge by being MIT-licensed, making it easier to use in your own commercial applications.

EngineY

EngineY is a social network and CMS framework implemented in Ruby on Rails that is easy to customize and deploy as your own powerful and feature packed social media or CMS site. Empower users with their own blogs. Enhance collaboration with forums, groups and events. Let your users post Twitter-like status messages. Track all the activity on your site with a live activity stream.

Features

User profiles
Events
Blogs
Private Messages
Photos
Forums
Activity Stream

Tog

Tog is a non-intrusive, extensible open source platform that helps you to add social network features to your Ruby on Rails apps. Using these prepackaged and automated features should let you focus on the real key point about social networks: keep the conversation going with your members. If you’re just starting a social site or wants to polish your community with lovely social capabilities maybe you should give tog a try.

Features

profiles
open/private groups
abuse report
tag clouds
ratings
internal messaging
blogs
photos
CMS
news
Q&A

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Bowline – Powerful Ruby Desktop Applications Framework

Mufti Ali — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:48:25 +0000

Bowline is a framework for making cross platform desktop applications in Ruby, HTML and JavaScript. If you’ve ever wished creating a desktop application was as simple as creating a Rails website, Bowline’s for you. Bowline respects MVC, you can design your views in HTML5/CSS3 – then bind them to your Ruby models. There’s no request/response cycle – any changes in models automatically get reflected in the view.

Bowline has an MVC architecture and Bowline’s views are written in HTML/JavaScript. Bowline is comprises of wxWidgets (C++ app framework), WebKit (the rendering engine behind Safari & Chrome) and Ruby 1.9.1 . At the moment, Bowline works on Linux and OSX. Windows support is in the pipeline.

Requirements: Mac OSX >=10.5 or Ubuntu, Ruby 1.9, Bowline gem
Demo: http://bowlineapp.com/#screenshots
License: MIT LIcense

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Scruffy – Beautiful Graphs for Ruby

Mufti Ali — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:10:18 +0000

Scruffy is a Ruby library for generating attractive and powerful graphs, useful for web applications, print media and many others. It’s highly customizable and powerful. You can change the backgrounds, mix different types of graph together, change the graphics used for the points, change the line types, etc. You can also render to different types of output.

With this library you can draw many type of graph on ruby such as Pie Chart, Line Graph, Bar Graph, Split Graph, Stacking Graph and Multi-viewport Multi-layered graph.

Demo: http://www.ibrasten.com/articles/tag/scruffy
Website: http://scruffy.rubyforge.org/
License: MIT license

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Gruff Graphs – making beautiful graphs with Ruby

Mufti Ali — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:04:08 +0000

The Gruff Graphing Library is a project to make beautiful graphs with Ruby created by Geoffrey Grosenbach. It Can be used alone or with Ruby on Rails. This library allow us to graph negative numbers (line and bar), specify colors, and customize the graphs in other ways.

Demo: http://geoffreygrosenbach.com/projects/show/5
Website: http://nubyonrails.com/pages/gruff
License: MIT License