Ruby Toolbox is a great source. I think opensourcerails.com has an equal and opposite value. Often times it is difficult to visualize how all of the tools fit together, before you start. Having a site where you can look through an open source fully functional site and figure out which tools were used to create it is helpful, for the beginner.
First of all, this is a fantastic resource, so thank you very much for putting it together. As somebody constantly working to improve his Rails knowledge I can see I'll get a lot out of this kind of thing.
Secondly, again from a learner's perspective, what would be fantastic for me would be if you could see what's in the Gemfile for each project at a glance. This is because, similar to the enterprise Java world, a lot of my problem solving efforts with Ruby are spent on the plumbing of components to each other, so being able to look at well-coded examples of this plumbing would be incredibly helpful.
I often wonder how other projects have tackled a similar problem to one I am tackling - today's example being multi-day events on a calendar. This list will make it much easier to see projects where there might be overlap. Thanks for the effort.
It'd be a fantastic learning tool if one could find all projects using a certain gem or search through the code bases. GitHub searches are often too broad and will come up with projects that are less than desirable role models.
Nice. I'd like to see something like this that wasn't limited to Rails app, but rather any open source app that could be deployed on PaaS providers like Heroku easily.
Try searching on http://www.github.com. There is a lot of open source apps/boilerplate listed there that you can leverage. Most of the apps listed on the OP site host code on Github.
Around 2 years ago there was a beautiful education app on Github built with rails. I heard they got acquired by google and, all of a sudden, all sources are gone.
Does anyone remember what was the name of that app?
This is great! I've been struggling to find good example apps for things like Symfony2 on the PHP side - are you planning on expanding to other languages/frameworks?
Yep, we'd love to expand to additional languages frameworks in the future. We'll need a core maintainer for each new gallery (we're not PHP guys) but I would happy to help set things up.
It's my first stop when I have a specific problem I am tackling.