# Open source web apps with Rails **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [August 30, 2007, 6:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/open-source-web-apps-with-rails/113398 "2007-08-30T18:53:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hotgazpacho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@hotgazpacho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hotgazpacho)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 6:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/open-source-web-apps-with-rails/113398/1 "2007-08-30T18:53:16Z")
Does anyone know of any good open source website packages for Rails? I’m looking for several of the following to compare for a couple of business ideas: Blog Engine Community site (with forums) Social News site (like Digg) Ecommerce General purpose web content (like DotNetNuke) Does anyone have any suggestions for any of these? As good of a framework as rails seems to be, I know there have to be some really slick projects out there. What would you suggest downloading and experimenting with? Yes, even I blog now: [http://willsmentaldebris.blogspot.com/](http://willsmentaldebris.blogspot.com/) * * * Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. ---
**Author:** ![hotgazpacho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@hotgazpacho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hotgazpacho)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 1:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/open-source-web-apps-with-rails/113398/2 "2007-08-31T01:32:08Z")
The other day I discovered this really cool resource for finding stuff on the web. It’s called Google. I don’t know…maybe you’ve heard of it? 🙂 [http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=open+source+rails+projects&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8](http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=open+source+rails+projects&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8) The number one result: [http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/OpenSourceProjects](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/OpenSourceProjects)