# \[ANN\]\[ADV\] Rails Wheels search and licencing system for Rails software

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-adv-rails-wheels-search-and-licencing-system-for-rails-software/147235>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 29, 2008, 6:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-adv-rails-wheels-search-and-licencing-system-for-rails-software/147235 "2008-08-29T18:05:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![elucify](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@elucify](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/elucify)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2008, 6:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-adv-rails-wheels-search-and-licencing-system-for-rails-software/147235/1 "2008-08-29T18:05:17Z")

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Hi,

I’d like to announce Rails Wheels, a way to find, and be  
notified about, plugins and other software that’s used on  
Rails sites, but also a way for authors of such software  
to earn part of their living from their open-sourced  
packages, rather than solely from their sites. The aim  
is to give us better software with better support &  
documentation, while preserving most of the benefits of  
free-software.

Licences can be purchased in infrequent batches, and are  
only required when software is in live use, easing the  
burden on software users, while software authors have  
a ready-made framework for listing, licencing and  
supporting their work.

So if you’ve written a plugin, tool, or other piece of  
software (big or small) that’s used on Rails websites,  
I invite you to register it at [http://railswheels.com](http://railswheels.com) .  
Your software’s licence conditions can be purely free,  
commercial, donation-ware, or a hybrid, including legacy  
options.

Thanks.

Mark

–  
We develop, watch us RoR, in numbers too big to ignore.