OK, general question for the community -- what''s the coolest startup using Rails? I don''t think "37 Signals" is a fair answer. I''m curious as to what kind of other developments are happening. Are there a lot of startups using Rails in the first place? Or do most of you who are lucky enough to do Rails for a living (I''m coding Java, bleah) work in large corporations? Or is it somewhere in between? Giles (ps, yes, if you''re wondering, my reasons for asking aren''t entirely hypothetical)
findlawton.com(loql.com), very early beta with no design set yet. On 3/6/06, Giles Bowkett <gilesb@gmail.com> wrote:> > OK, general question for the community -- what''s the coolest startup > using Rails? I don''t think "37 Signals" is a fair answer. I''m curious > as to what kind of other developments are happening. Are there a lot > of startups using Rails in the first place? Or do most of you who are > lucky enough to do Rails for a living (I''m coding Java, bleah) work in > large corporations? Or is it somewhere in between? > > Giles > > (ps, yes, if you''re wondering, my reasons for asking aren''t entirely > hypothetical) > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >-- John Hornbeck http://findlawton.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060306/5d5bfcd7/attachment.html
> Search Result > 0 records containing horny monkeyhmm. Google returns more results. oh wait:> What does this site offer me? > > The site is centralized to Lawton, OK. This website enables the user > to search for a business by name or description, and it displays a search > list off what you put in the text field.ah ha. neat. I suppose then it could be considered a good thing that your community-specific search site didn''t return any results for "horny monkey." (although obviously whether it was a good thing or a bad thing would have to be determined by your community.) On 3/6/06, John Hornbeck <hornbeck@gmail.com> wrote:> findlawton.com(loql.com), very early beta with no design set yet. > > > On 3/6/06, Giles Bowkett < gilesb@gmail.com> wrote: > > > OK, general question for the community -- what''s the coolest startup > using Rails? I don''t think "37 Signals" is a fair answer. I''m curious > as to what kind of other developments are happening. Are there a lot > of startups using Rails in the first place? Or do most of you who are > lucky enough to do Rails for a living (I''m coding Java, bleah) work in > large corporations? Or is it somewhere in between? > > Giles > > (ps, yes, if you''re wondering, my reasons for asking aren''t entirely > hypothetical) > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails > > > > -- > John Hornbeck > http://findlawton.com > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails > > >-- Giles Goat Boy http://gilesmakesmusic.blogspot.com http://gileswritescode.blogspot.com
Giles Bowkett wrote:> OK, general question for the community -- what''s the coolest startup > using Rails?i''ll have to refer you to the resident experts @ http://valleywag.com> I don''t think "37 Signals" is a fair answer. I''m curious > as to what kind of other developments are happening. Are there a lot > of startups using Rails in the first place?20% are using rails, 35% are using JAVA, 40% are using PHP, and 5% are using everything else> Or do most of you who are > lucky enough to do Rails for a living (I''m coding Java, bleah) work in > large corporations? Or is it somewhere in between?i dont know. nobody ever wants to hire me, so as long as im going to code im going to do something that doesnt make me want to go on another shooting spree> > Giles > > (ps, yes, if you''re wondering, my reasons for asking aren''t entirely > hypothetical)i dont know if there are any startups that are on Rails and also have been acquired by google. i mean maybe they could build some kind of distributed abstraction layer to easily run an app across a few thousand servers.. i only say this because im curious if the business plan for ''once we become as popular as myspace'' is to fill up a room with mac mini''s until the electricity shorts out.. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
I believe that Measure Map is based on Rails, built by Jeff Veen and team at Adaptive Path but now bought by Google. On 07/03/06, Giles Bowkett <gilesb@gmail.com> wrote:> OK, general question for the community -- what''s the coolest startup > using Rails?-- Cheers, Serdar Kilic http://weblog.kilic.net/
On 3/6/06, carmen <carmen@whats-your.name> wrote:> Giles Bowkett wrote: > > OK, general question for the community -- what''s the coolest startup > > using Rails? > > i''ll have to refer you to the resident experts @ http://valleywag.com"Gorgeous Google Gals: Semifinals Results" wtf?!?!?!?! OK maybe that was a stupid question.> > I don''t think "37 Signals" is a fair answer. I''m curious > > as to what kind of other developments are happening. Are there a lot > > of startups using Rails in the first place? > > 20% are using rails, 35% are using JAVA, 40% are using PHP, and 5% are > using everything elseI think you made that up.> > Or do most of you who are > > lucky enough to do Rails for a living (I''m coding Java, bleah) work in > > large corporations? Or is it somewhere in between? > > i dont know. nobody ever wants to hire me, so as long as im going to > code im going to do something that doesnt make me want to go on another > shooting spree**another** shooting spree? you know, realistically, if you''re still in the workforce after the first shooting spree, you must be one hell of a coder.> > (ps, yes, if you''re wondering, my reasons for asking aren''t entirely > > hypothetical) > > i dont know if there are any startups that are on Rails and also have > been acquired by google. i mean maybe they could build some kind of > distributed abstraction layer to easily run an app across a few thousand > servers.. i only say this because im curious if the business plan for > ''once we become as popular as myspace'' is to fill up a room with mac > mini''s until the electricity shorts out..Google Schmoogle...I''m just wondering. Giles
neato! gracias. On 3/6/06, Serdar K?l?? <skilic@gmail.com> wrote:> I believe that Measure Map is based on Rails, built by Jeff Veen and > team at Adaptive Path but now bought by Google. > > On 07/03/06, Giles Bowkett <gilesb@gmail.com> wrote: > > OK, general question for the community -- what''s the coolest startup > > using Rails? > -- > Cheers, > Serdar Kilic > http://weblog.kilic.net/ > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >-- Giles Goat Boy http://gilesmakesmusic.blogspot.com http://gileswritescode.blogspot.com
Currently, we''re only one notch above as small as a startup can get: we have two developers who work on the enjoyable stuff every day after our day jobs are complete. IMO, rails is the only framework that can support a startup of this size - we''d never have gotten off the ground with Java. We tried to create a competitor to del.icio.us using a Tapestry/Spring/Hibernate stack and just couldn''t compete. Now with Rails, our passion for the business can glow without being smothered by layers of XML ;) Anyway, as for the "coolest" startup using Rails, I think everyone will agree it is their own. On Monday, March 06, 2006, at 1:52 PM, Giles Bowkett wrote:>OK, general question for the community -- what''s the coolest startup >using Rails? I don''t think "37 Signals" is a fair answer. I''m curious >as to what kind of other developments are happening. Are there a lot >of startups using Rails in the first place? Or do most of you who are >lucky enough to do Rails for a living (I''m coding Java, bleah) work in >large corporations? Or is it somewhere in between? > >Giles > >(ps, yes, if you''re wondering, my reasons for asking aren''t entirely >hypothetical) >_______________________________________________ >Rails mailing list >Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org >http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/railsCheers! --Dave Teare http://devlists.com - Email list management http://palmsphere.com - Apps for your hand-held -- Posted with http://DevLists.com. Sign up and save your time!
On 6 Mar 2006 23:40:05 -0000, Dave Teare <devlists-rubyonrails@devlists.com> wrote:>> > Anyway, as for the "coolest" startup using Rails, I think everyone will > agree it is their own.My startup isn''t cool. :) It''s downright ugly. I need a designer. Help! ;)
Same here. I just started working with a designer, so we are still in the very early stages. Everything on our site is concept at the moment. The name is also just a working name. John findlawton.com On 3/6/06, Kenneth Lee <klee@klmn.net> wrote:> > On 6 Mar 2006 23:40:05 -0000, Dave Teare > <devlists-rubyonrails@devlists.com> wrote:> > > > > Anyway, as for the "coolest" startup using Rails, I think everyone will > > agree it is their own. > > My startup isn''t cool. :) > > It''s downright ugly. I need a designer. Help! ;) > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >-- John Hornbeck http://findlawton.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060307/c8c2d7d3/attachment.html
I work for IndyStar.com/Intakeweekly.com (Indiana newspaper site owned by Gannett) and am deploying two Rails apps this month. One is pretty much done and waiting for the green light.. the other I haven''t started yet. Gannett tends to stick with the M$ stack, but also has a few Java apps around. There may be one or two Gannett sponsored PHP apps... IndyStar is the third largest site (about 30 million page views per month for online viewing) and enjoys/requires a bit more autonomy than most other Gannett sites. The main site is hosted by Gannett and uses their CMS/Windows environment, while everything database driven is hosted onsite which historically uses PHP/Linux. We have a huge demand for online database applications and I''m the only one that does it, so I''ve been pushing for something like Rails for almost a year. I created my own framework that was done in PHP, but it was a very ad-hoc stop and go development. It''s similar to Rails but Rails obviously developed much more rapidly. Since Ruby is my favorite language, the Rails stack was of great interest to me. I finally got the OK once Rails hit 1.0 and after the huge hassle of upgrading all of our cluster machines to the most current OS release and doing a lot of proof of concept work, I''m finally able to deploy something. We have several large applications based on my PHP framework that do calendaring, interactive sports, classifieds, etc and continue to be developed in PHP, but I plan to do all new projects in Rails. I imagine there are many people that are in similar positions. Rails is just now beginning to prove itself to the enterprise. Those that are coming onboard now are probably among the earliest adopters, but it seems likely that corporate use will explode over the next year or two. The largest obstacle I''ve had to overcome is the extreme skepticism regarding all of the hype Rails gets. Rails is actually getting so much hype it''s detrimental. It won''t matter in the end though. Rails is great technology and is already well out of the gate. Chris On Mar 6, 2006, at 3:52 PM, Giles Bowkett wrote:> OK, general question for the community -- what''s the coolest startup > using Rails? I don''t think "37 Signals" is a fair answer. I''m curious > as to what kind of other developments are happening. Are there a lot > of startups using Rails in the first place? Or do most of you who are > lucky enough to do Rails for a living (I''m coding Java, bleah) work in > large corporations? Or is it somewhere in between? > > Giles > > (ps, yes, if you''re wondering, my reasons for asking aren''t entirely > hypothetical) > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
Dave Teare wrote:> Anyway, as for the "coolest" startup using Rails, I think everyone will > agree it is their own. >Absolutely! We''re using Rails exclusively in our startup. We''re still in very early stages and there''s not much to speak of so far, but we''re definitely excited about it and consider it the coolest startup on the face of the planet! We also know what reality is, but we''re passionate about what we do... http://www.kingdomsolutions.com.au Cheers, Dan