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No worthwhile RoR web apps? Check out BackPack, BaseCamp, or TaDa List. Finally, RoR can do anything that PHP can do from blog engines to a photo gallery to web stores. So to say that Ruby on Rails can't create any worthwhile websites shows a lack of knowledge of the abilities that Ruby on Rails has.

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Fancy AJAX and all. Have fun.

What about your 'To Do' List?"

I started using Ta-Da List the day it launched and haven't looked back since. It's incredibly simple, free, web-based, and endlessly useful. I have a dozen other tools on my computer that can handle to-do lists (with syncing, priorities, due dates, etc), but Ta-Da List's basic approach makes it more useful than any of them.

37signals (the makers), also run two similar-but-different web-based organization apps, Backpack and Basecamp, that I highly recommend. All of them can be used for free.

Since we've had a rails article today, what about this rails web todo app from the creators or rails itself... http://www.tadalist.com/

• Backpack
• TaDa Lists
• BaseCamp

The other way around. The rails version was the original tadalist

• http://www.43things.com/ Nice amazon-like community thingy
• http://www.basecamphq.com/ Online project management sofware
• http://www.tadalist.com/ Todo-lists
• http://www.snowdevil.ca/ Snowboard stuff

...but they don't have that pause at the beginning while a 20MB+ VM spins up, they don't have Microsoft shipping mutant versions of the standard, and they're a lot more fun to write.

Finally, as a Java afficiondo, you can have the best of both worlds in at least two different ways as well.

Ruby on Rails is growing at an astounding rate right now, which is not at least due to the growing number of real-life applications that has been build upon it. Including:

Basecamp -- The original Rails application from which the framework was extracted. A hosted project management application that combines weblog, todo lists, milestones, file storage, and more to keep everyone on the same page in a project.

43 Things -- The "What do you want to do with your life?" application that lets you enter the 43 things that you're currently looking to achieve in life. You can blog about doing it, find others doing the same, and give advice to people who are doing things you've done.

Ta-da List -- The todo list component of Basecamp factored out into a free mini application. Uses XMLHttpRequest and other JS techniques to keep the interface super snappy. Sharable todo lists for every occasion.

And those are just a small sample of all the public applications out there on Rails. On top of that, there's a wide range of e-commerce, content management, business intelligence, intranet systems, and more being build inside a lot of organizations.

Exciting times!

This is not insightful. If you want to see how well it scales look all all the production grade applications out there. The source to hieraki is freely accessible.

Rails is NOT your run the mill proof of concept framework. Its the next level of programming environment right now and here. Available for you to download under MIT license. The people who use it make applications magnitudes faster than the people who aren't. Single people can be as productive as whole teams.

There hasn't been an improvement in productivity like this in recent programming-history.

And don't just put down what you don't understand, give it a try.

Your attitude will just get you boring jobs.

You might want to tell that to Basecamp, 43 Things, and Tada Lists, since they obviously have no idea that Rails isn't good for anything of that magnitude. Might also mention it to all the thousands of people that use those sites, daily, and to the handful of developers who built and deployed those sites in a fraction of the time and cost of other web solutions.

Then again, maybe you shouldn't...