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24 alternatives to I'm doing a gem-by-gem guide for social networks in Rails. Feedback?

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I'm doing a gem-by-gem guide for social networks in Rails. Feedback? launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Ruby on Rails Podcast - 201: API-first, planning-second▲91
Building REST API's with Rails
2015 · 5by5.tv · its alternatives →
2
Ruby on Rails - 207: Choosing the Right Systems for the Job with Sam Lambert▲73
Sam Lambert from GitHub shares how he chooses systems
2015 · 5by5.tv · its alternatives →
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Ruby on Rails Podcast - 205: Webhooks 101 & 202▲81
Implementing & scaling webhooks at GitHub
2015 · 5by5.tv · its alternatives →
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This Developing Story - 34: Rails Works Well Enough▲56
talking about a blog post complaining about Rails
2015 · developingstory.netlify.com · its alternatives →
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Prelang▲82
Automatic Rails Development
2014 · prelang.com · its alternatives →
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LiftMetrix▲73
Actionable Recommendations for Social Media
2015 · stadtgame.com · its alternatives →
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RailsClips▲2
A weekly video series dedicated to web development with Ruby
2015 · its alternatives →
8
Ruby5 - Episode #633▲52
This week, we discuss Slack vision bot, a guide to library..
2016 · pluralsight.com · its alternatives →
9
The Informant▲70
Real-time usability monitoring for Rails apps
2014 · informantapp.com · its alternatives →
10AB
A book on Building API's with Rails▲8
2014 · apionrails.icalialabs.com · its alternatives →
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Rubyonrails.link▲15
Global Ruby on Rails community on Slack
2015 · rubyonrails.link · its alternatives →
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Fae▲8
Open-source content management system based on Rails
2017 · faecms.com · its alternatives →
13IW
I wrote a new user guide for the offshoot of GNU Social, Mastodon▲6
2016 · swaldie.github.io · its alternatives →
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My first Rails Gem, Shareable – A gem for adding social sharing links▲12
A Social Buttons Gem for Rails. Compatible with Rails 3 and 4. - hermango/shareable
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
15
Rings.social – A content voting (Reddit API compatible) platform▲9
2023 · rings.social · its alternatives →
16MF
My first Rails app, LinkRawr, Twitter-esque way to find cool links▲5
I'm getting my feet wet in programming again and wanted to learn Rails. So I followed railstutorial.org (you'll recognize the similarity if you've gone through it yourself) and changed a few fields around and created LinkRawr, a simple site to find and share links. It's here: http://linkrawr.heroku.com It works like Twitter, you follow others' links and people follow your links. You can follow me here: http://linkrawr.heroku.com/Justin I created this over the past couple of days and I'm a relative newbie when it comes to programming, so it's far from a polished project, but I thought I'd…
2011 · linkrawr.heroku.com · its alternatives →
17HA
HashBot, augmented twitter feed (web beta)▲6
2014 · web.hashbotapp.com · its alternatives →
18EG
Easy GraphQL Caching for Rails▲9
2018 · stackshare.io · its alternatives →
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Janus – A read/write MySQL proxy for Rails' ActiveRecord 7.1▲7
2024 · tech.olioex.com · its alternatives →
20IB
I built a tool to visualize your Twitter Network▲6
2021 · listtweet.com · its alternatives →
21GC
glipho.com, newborn approach to social content publishing▲5
2012 · glipho.com · its alternatives →
22SP
simple page to list all your social networks' profiles▲7
2013 · dlinker.com · its alternatives →
23CC
Canny, collect & organize user feedback▲5
2017 · medium.com · its alternatives →
24HT
Hierarchical Tagging with Rails 3 and Closure Trees▲6
2011 · matthew.mceachen.us · its alternatives →

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