Chris Castiglione Co-founder of Console.xyz. Adjunct Prof at Columbia University Business School.

20 Website Examples built with Ruby on Rails

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Ruby on Rails is a popular web development framework. It’s used for building websites and applications like Twitter, Groupon, Shopify and many more. Here at One Month we love Ruby on Rails — we’ve been teaching our famous One Month Rails course since 2013, and have graduated over 10,000 students from our bootcamp!

If you’re looking to learn Ruby on Rails (or learn Ruby, the programming language behind Ruby on Rails) here’s some inspiration for you: 20 famous Ruby on Rails website examples!

1. Airbnb

Airbnb is built with Ruby on Rails

2. Kickstarter

Kickstarter is built with Ruby

3.Basecamp

Basecamp is built with Ruby on Rails

4. CafePress

CafePress is built with Ruby on Rails

5. CrunchBase

Crunchbase is built with Ruby on Rails

6. Dribbble

Dribbble is built with Ruby on Rails

7. Fab.com

Fab.com was developed using Ruby on Rails

8. Funny or Die

Funny or Die is built with Ruby and Ruby on Rails

9. Github

Github was developed using Ruby on Rails

10. Groupon

The programming language Groupon uses is Ruby, and the framework is Ruby on Rails

11. Hulu

Hulu is built with Ruby on Rails

12.2.Apartable

Apartable is built with Ruby on Rails

13. SendGrid

SendGrid is built with Ruby on Rails

14. Shopify

Shopify is built with Ruby on Rails

15. Soundcloud

Soundcloud was developed using the Ruby on Rails code framework

16. Square

Square is built with Ruby on Rails

17. Twitter

Twitter is built with Ruby on Rails — and was one of the first famous Rails projects!

18. Urban Dictionary

Urban Dictionary is built with Ruby on Rails

19. Whitepages

Whitepages is built with Ruby on Rails

20. Zendesk

Zendesk is built using Ruby on Rails


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Chris Castiglione Co-founder of Console.xyz. Adjunct Prof at Columbia University Business School.