Projects by Ruby.mn Members

These projects are the work of Ruby.mn members. Some are ruby related. Some are not.

  • BBQBuds

    Author: James Ostheimer
    Project URL: http://www.bbqbuds.com
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    Social network for BBQ fanatics. Uses CommunityEngine to provide social networking features and adds on data that is specific to BBQ'ing.

  • Classroom Agenda

    Author: Andy Gaskell
    Project URL: http://classroomagenda.com
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    Classroom Agenda lets teachers post assignments, exams, field trips and general announcements. Parents and students can see what's going on in class from home.

  • Co-op

    Author: Barry Hess
    Project URL: http://coopapp.com
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    Co-op makes it easy to stay connected with your co-workers without disrupting them. Your team can use it to post updates, ask questions, share links, and track time.

  • Cullect

    Author: garrick Van Buren
    Project URL: http://cullect.com
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    Collaborative feed aggregator and reader, designed for easily finding and sharing the most important items from your favorite sites.

  • Culwiki

    Author: garrick Van Buren
    Project URL: http://blog.cullect.com/archive/category/wiki
    Source URL: http://github.com/garrickvanburen/culwiki/tree/master

    Ruby and Rails based wiki engine using sessions for authentication and HAML for formatting.

  • DecoyMusic.com

    Author: Jared Mehle
    Project URL: http://www.decoymusic.com
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    DecoyMusic is an online music magazine specializing in non-mainstream music. It publishes, news, reviews, articles, photos and photos on a variety of genres.

  • FanChatter Events

    Author: Luke Francl
    Project URL: http://events.fanchatter.com
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    In stadium mobile phone photo sharing. See your photos up on the big screen!

    This software is used locally by the Twins, Wild, and Gophers.

  • Follow Cost

    Author: Luke Francl
    Project URL: http://followcost.com
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    Find out how annoying it will be to follow someone on Twitter before you follow them!

    Built by Luke Francl and Barry Hess using Sinatra and the Twitter APIs.

  • Harvest

    Author: Barry Hess
    Project URL: http://getharvest.com
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    Track time, log expenses, invoice clients, keep track of account receivables and revenue.

  • hudson hospital

    Author: steve fox
    Project URL: http://hudsonhospital.org
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    Website for Hudson Hospital & Clinics. Full-blown CMS. The client has created hundreds of pages, doctor profiles, press items with simple tools built in rails. CMS features full control over sidebar graphics, thumbnails, header graphics, graphics links and more. The app also provides nifty role-based authorization and an inward-facing set of pages viewable by hospital staff only.

    Fun project to say the least. Thinking about putting it on heroku.

  • iPhoto-to-WordPress.rb

    Author: garrick Van Buren
    Project URL: http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/iphoto-to-wordpress-ruby-script
    Source URL: http://garrickvanburen.com/download/send_selected_photos_to_wordpress.rb

    Ruby-appscript that lives in the Scripts Menu of your Mac & sends the selected iPhotos to your WordPress blog.

  • JavaChirps

    Author: Sam Schroeder
    Project URL: http://JavaChirps.com
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    Making Coffee Tweets Suck Less... or More

    This micro-app is a coffee tweet builder for Twitter. It was a fun toy app built to experiment with Twitter's OAuth system, jQuery, and Rails 2.3 templates.

  • JRuby

    Author: Charles Nutter
    Project URL: http://www.jruby.org
    Source URL: http://svn.codehaus.org/jruby/trunk/jruby

    JRuby is an implementation of the Ruby programming language atop the Java Virtual Machine. JRuby aims to have both Ruby 1.8.6 and Ruby 1.9.1 compatibility with excellent performance for both. JRuby also provides access to Java libraries from Ruby code, making the whole of Java's ecosystem accessible to Ruby programmers.

  • Kernest (and Fontue)

    Author: garrick Van Buren
    Project URL: http://kernest.com
    Source URL: http://github.com/garrickvanburen/fontue

    Web font directory & open source font serving engine.

  • nuGeeks

    Author: Bob Martens
    Project URL: http://nugeeks.org
    Source URL: http://github.com/boblmartens/nugeeks

    Soon-to-be site for the New Ulm Geeks (nuGeeks) website. Hopefully will be fleshed out enough so that it could be molded into a community site for almost any application.

  • RedStamp.com

    Author: Casey Helbling
    Project URL: http://redstamp.com
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    E-Commerce Site: Red Stamp offers distinctive, high quality, paper cards and other personalized paper products.

  • Resize Image

    Author: Andy Gaskell
    Project URL: http://resizeimage.org
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    My first "real" Rails app. You can resize or crop pictures.

  • Screen Your Child

    Author: Chris Schumann
    Project URL: http://www.screenyourchild.com/
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    This site is a research-based system for obtaining parent's reports of their child's present functioning.

    The Child Development Chart at the center of the system helps determine "What" and "How Well" the child is doing, and to anticipate future development up to age five.

    The report helps both parents and professionals focus on any parent concerns and provides a profile of the child's development in five areas: Social, Self Help, Gross motor, Fine Motor and Language.

  • Synop.it

    Author: Mark Nutter
    Project URL: http://synop.it
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    Synop.it is a wiki for summaries of popular articles on and off the web. With the Synop.it bookmarklet, when you've found a lengthy article you can click and see if a summary has been created, or you can be the first to create one. We built this app in response to the daunting amount of interesting articles that one runs across on any given day on the web.

  • Twistr

    Author: Luke Francl
    Project URL: http://twistr.org
    Source URL:

    Twitter + Flickr = LOLs?

  • Twitterless

    Author: Mark Nutter
    Project URL: http://twitterless.com
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    Twitterless started out as a Twitter app that notifies people when they lose followers, but it has grown into a general sandbox for different Twitter enhancement ideas. Currently we are working on a smart link culling service.

  • Venuematic

    Author: Chris Schumann
    Project URL: http://venuematic.heroku.com/
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    In-progress Rails project to help the SCA community (http://www.sca.org) catalog venues for holding events.

    The SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) group that promotes the study of Europe in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

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