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24 alternatives to Ruby on Rails - 207: Choosing the Right Systems for the Job with Sam Lambert

Sam Lambert from GitHub shares how he chooses systems

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Ruby on Rails - 207: Choosing the Right Systems for the Job with Sam Lambert launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1SA
   Softcover – A publishing platform from the author of the Rails Tutorial▲208

   2014 · softcover.io · its alternatives →

2. 2UA
   Upmin – An Admin Framework for Ruby on Rails▲140

   2014 · upmin.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Ruby on Rails Podcast - 202: Behind the scenes at Product Hunt▲98

   Launch of podcasts, API-first, React.js and Heroku

   2015 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Ruby on Rails Podcast - 201: API-first, planning-second▲91

   Building REST API's with Rails

   2015 · its alternatives →

5. 5BR
   BestRuby – Ruby Tricks, Idioms, Refactorings and Best Practices▲92

   2015 · best-ruby.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Software Engineering Daily — The Evolution of Rails with David Heinemeier Hansson▲67

   DHH talks software, evolving Basecamp, and "unicorns"

   2016 · its alternatives →

7. 7OA
   Omniref - a better search site for Ruby documentation▲110

   2013 · omniref.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Prelang▲82

   Automatic Rails Development

   2014 · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Ruby on Rails Podcast #204: Money and open source▲81

   Sean and Kyle talk the economics of open source software.

   2015 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Full Stack Radio - 27: Ben Orenstein ▲64

    Talk about Outside-in TDD, Dependency Injection and Rails

    2015 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Ruby on Rails Podcast - 205: Webhooks 101 & 202▲81

    Implementing & scaling webhooks at GitHub

    2015 · its alternatives →

12. 12MF
    My first webapp - cheatsheets that help you prepare for job interviews▲17

    http://www.littlechits.com<br> This is my first web app; I built this on my own, over the past 4 months, using the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, a few other e-books, and a lot of help from the Stack Overflow community!<br>Feedback would be greatly appreciated, in particular: how can I make this more social?<br>Thanks,<br>Faisal

    2012 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Ruby on Rails Podcast - Memorable Tips for Working Remotely▲66

    Learn to be an effective remote team member, and how to bui…

    2015 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    This Developing Story - 34: Rails Works Well Enough▲56

    talking about a blog post complaining about Rails

    2015 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Does Not Compute - 17: Safety in Numbers▲53

    Sean and Paul talk about the Ruby on Rails Doctrine and Otto

    2016 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Ruby on Rails Podcast Episode 223: Two and a Half ORMs▲11

    Chat about building a side project, Rails 5, and ORMs

    2017 · its alternatives →

17. 17IW
    I wrote the most comprehensive book on Rails and Hotwire▲11

    This book is what I believe to be the most comprehensive resource on Rails and Hotwire in existence. It covers advanced Rails concepts in details and also teaches Turbo Native alongside web concepts. I like to think of it as a spiritual sequel to Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial.

    2023 · railsandhotwirecodex.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Ruby on Rails 5.0▲6

    The next generation of the Ruby web framework

    2016 · its alternatives →

19. 19LJ
    Learn Java and More Online (My 1st real Rails app)▲15

    I've been working for about 8 months on http://www.Learneroo.com, a site to teach programming and more through challenges. I created the site and all the content on it, and I'm looking for some feedback. Thanks!

    2013 · its alternatives →

20. 20MF
    My first web app - SociaLeaks.com - wikileaks for the social scene▲5

    Please have a look at www.socialeaks.com and tell me what you think. This is my first adventure in coding (my background is not CS). I started learning rails about a month ago via railstutorial.org. When I finished that, I felt the best way to continue learning would be to just build an app from scratch. I came up with this concept while observing how crazy the world had gone over WikiLeaks. I thought this was a funny idea. I also thought it would be fun to build! So, here I am. I built this in rails 3 and it is currently living on Heroku. It took me about two weeks to code, doing just about…

    2011 · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Ruby on Rails Podcast▲8

    Discussion/Q&A style podcast for developers and UI designers

    2015 · its alternatives →

22. 22AO
    An online Elixir/Phoenix course aimed at devs who already know Rails▲7

    2023 · phoenixonrails.com · its alternatives →

23. 23MF
    My First Rails App (currentride.com)▲5

    I needed to get out of localhost:3000 land and ship a (somewhat functional) web app. Anyways, I built Current Ride as a place to put your bucket list items out in the open. The goal is really to inspire the community to do more things! Building the app helped me understand Rails a lot better and allowed me to hack-break-fix bugs/features more effectively :) Enjoy! http://www.currentride.com

    2012 · its alternatives →

24. 24
    RailsClips▲2

    A weekly video series dedicated to web development with Ruby

    2015 · its alternatives →

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