Archives for Railsify
06
SEP
This evening marks the launch Rails Work – a Ruby on Rails job board application developed by the Railsify Project.
What’s the Railsify Project?
Since the launch of Railsify (my Rails Plugins directory) a couple of weeks ago, a few things have been happening – together with Josh Catone and Vinnie Garcia we have created the ‘Railsify Project’ which will be the “network” behind Rails Forum, Rails Work and Railsify (the plugin directory) as well quite a few other exciting internet properties which we will be developing in the next few months.
What does this mean for me?
It just means I will be involved with developing the new sites we deploy through the Railsify Project. I have just developed the Rails Work site, took about 2 days although all the design work was already done and copied from Railsify so it was a quite a relaxing app to build.
What’s coming in the next few weeks?
Now our plugin directory and job board are up and running we are going to be looking at developing a shared authentication system to use on all Railsify network sites. Also, we have a number of new features to add to both Railsify and Rails Work so keep an eye out for them. We’re also going to be re-styling Rails Forum but don’t expect anything quick on that as we are still (with the rorBB team) working on developing the new forum software.
20
AUG
Introducing... Railsify
Posted by Adam Posted in Programming and Railsify 6 comments
Well here we go again, another week, another site launch – this time we’re launching Railsify, a Ruby on Rails plugin directory. I started work on Saturday morning and deployed at lunchtime on Monday – talk about a quick turnaround. During this time, I designed the site, planned my implementation and actually built the site using Rails.
Railsify is an attempt to create a centralized directory of Ruby on Rails plugins, making it easier to find for new users as well as more experienced ones. It’s our/my way of giving something back to the Rails community.
Users can add their own plugins and they can also add plugins that belong to other developers. Registered users can also bookmark their favourite plugins and become fans of other users (for example, if a member has provided some cool plugins, you may wish to recommend their work to others). Anybody can register whether you’re plugin developer or just a Rails user – and, obviously, it’s all free!
Plugins are sorted into various categories (final list still to be decided) and plugins can belong to up to 3 categories at a time. All plugins have an easy to copy Rails install command so you can easily copy and paste it directly into your shell to install the plugin. A plugin can also build up comments from any registered users.
There are still a few things which we need to iron out should (hopefully) the site get busy such as implementing some sort of plugin quality checking and a way to rate plugins so more popular ones are shown higher on lists.
Railsify will also download any README and CHANGELOG files from your subversion repository and include them as part of your listing. Alternatively, you can write your own readme and change log independent of your SVN repo.
There are also some other cool features but you need to discover them for yourself. So, pop over to railisfy.com and take a look for yourself.