Today, I have successfully launched railslist.com, an open source
craiglist style classifieds script.
It is named as such to reflect the fact that it has been developed using
rails.
It will be released to open source community today.
In the meantime, i would appreciate if you could take time to have a
look, play around and let me know any issues.
This is a beta release and we will be releasing patches based on your
feedback.
More features will be added as and when the community responds with
their requirements.
This is my very first open source release, so please feel free to
suggest me with your tips.
Regards
www.railslist.com
not even a single feedback from rails enthusiasts!..mmm…strange
This looks great, still lacking user accounts? and non US cities,
maybe you could export those from here http://www.geonames.org/ they
have xml dumps. Nice work.
Patrick A. wrote:
This looks great, still lacking user accounts? and non US cities,
maybe you could export those from here http://www.geonames.org/ they
have xml dumps. Nice work.
Hurray!. At last I’ve got one feedback. Thanks a lot Aljord.
This script can be used to serve multiple countries by keeping each
country in a subdomain and by running a separate instance for each
country. This makes administration easier.
User accounts can be implemented as Rails has excellent plugins to do
it. Probably, we can include it in future releases.
Why go with the same design as craigslist? I posted an ad and the
speed it hit my email was very quick.
-rob
Yes, why the exact same look ? IMHO the look of craigslist is to
cluttered, and the design is most likely copyrighted.
Looks fast.
Trausti
Trausti Thor J. wrote:
[…]
, and the design is most likely copyrighted.
At least under U.S. law, I seem to recall that designs aren’t
copyrightable (certainly fonts are not, which is why font knockoffs are
possible). However, look and feel is coyrightable (or something
similar) in the case of software. This could go either way, I guess.
Best,
Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]
I don’t think style is that important, don’t like it? Just modify the
CSS and be happy.
Thanks a million for the comments.
rob wrote:
Why go with the same design as craigslist? I posted an ad and the
speed it hit my email was very quick.
-rob
Trausti wrote:
Yes, why the exact same look ? IMHO the look of craigslist is to
cluttered, and the design is most likely copyrighted.
Looks fast.
Trausti
Good question!. Most of the time people identify ‘classifieds’ and
‘craigslist’ interchangebly, similar to ‘googling’ for ‘searching’. So,
the visuals emphasize that they are on a classifieds site.
Besides, someone good in CSS (I’m terrible in CSS) can earn couple of
quids for design alterations. Because it is being released as Open
Source shortly, Although the entire script has not been re-factored to
bring in modularity. Like its visuals, the code is ugly too :-).
Cheers
www.railslist.com
Greg D. wrote:
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 2:47 AM, Rails
List[email protected] wrote:
not even a single feedback from rails enthusiasts!..mmm…strange
Your SEO is not… optimal.
railslist.com - Google Search
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Greg D.
http://destiney.com/
Greg, thanks for taking time to have a look and for leaving your
feedback. I would love to hear more from you on what it is lacking, so
that it can be implemented.
Personally, I feel Railslist, the open source classifieds script has a
better SEO than many other paid scripts. When I say SEO, I mean
- Provision to change Titles
- Ability to set your own Meta Keywords and Meta Descriptions
- Fine tuned descriptive URL rather than just id’s (thanks to
permalink_fu)
The rest of onpage and offpage seo depends on external links and
placement of contents.
Please provide me your suggestions for any further enhancement.
Above all, I am sure this would help Rails beginners to learn rails as
they can download this script and play around.
Cheers
You mention that this is open source, but I don’t see any mention of
where to download the source code. If you really want good developer
feedback then you may want to consider GitHubbing (is that a word?)
the project which will allow us to download and play with the
software.
On Aug 15, 4:44 pm, Rails L. [email protected]
Billee D. wrote:
You mention that this is open source, but I don’t see any mention of
where to download the source code. If you really want good developer
feedback then you may want to consider GitHubbing (is that a word?)
the project which will allow us to download and play with the
software.
On Aug 15, 4:44�pm, Rails L. [email protected]
I am yet to release it. I will be doing it today. Before hand, I just
wanted developers/normal users feedback, so that I can be sure that
critical things work as expected.
Love the idea, and certainly would love to go through the code.
However, I second the thoughts saying that a totally different design
should be adopted.
One idea for the landing page would be a giant Google map centered in
user’s location with markers for every city
Google maps could also be integrated to draw search results in certain
categories.
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 2:47 AM, Rails
List[email protected] wrote:
not even a single feedback from rails enthusiasts!..mmm…strange
Your SEO is not… optimal.
http://www.google.com/search?q=railslist.com
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Greg D.
http://destiney.com/
how to see the code? where to download it?
On Aug 16, 12:44 am, Rails L. [email protected]
Rails L. wrote:
Billee D. wrote:
You mention that this is open source, but I don’t see any mention of
where to download the source code.
[…]
I am yet to release it.
Then it’s not open source yet.
Best,
Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]
It runs very quickly when it’s working, but I did have a lot of
intermittent downtime in-between browsing (1-2 minute spurts). [note:
that may just be my ISP, a lot of sites seem to be going slow today].
For testing purposes, it might be better to just have a couple of
cities. I was unable to find any other posts so I didn’t spend too
much time browsing.
I do agree that it is too similar to Craigslist (which is far from a
perfect design to begin with). However, it is a great job so far,
congrats! There are little things that still need to be worked on:
- if a user submits a new classified, the app should auto-fill the
city and category (when possible)
- go to the user’s posting after activation
On Aug 15, 1:44 pm, Rails L. [email protected]
Great … where can we get the it ? Will localize and apply it to my
region…
erwin
On 15 août, 22:44, Rails L. [email protected]
good job! with open source you mean we can all help you working on the
project on github? I’m down with it!
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Rails
List[email protected] wrote:
In the meantime, i would appreciate if you could take time to have a
Regards
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Robby R. wrote:
I’m curious to know what the motivation behind this was. Makes a good
proof-of-concept, perhaps you’re a student?
Otherwise, I don’t see any business value in cloning what Craigslist
already
does. If I’m going to post an ad, I’ll use Craigslist and suspect most
people would. Posting an ad on a clone site doesn’t seem worthwhile…
Robby
There is no business motive behind this. Having said that, it can be
used for business purposes if one wants to.
I am shortly pushing it to github as well.