railslist.com - an opensource craigslist!

[Rails List]

Today, I have successfully launched <a
href="http://www.railslist.com">railslist.com</a>, 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
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[Rails List]

not even a single feedback from rails enthusiasts!...mmm..strange

[Patrick Aljord]

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.

[Rails List]

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.

[rob]

Why go with the same design as craigslist? I posted an ad and the
speed it hit my email was very quick.
-rob

[Trausti Thor Johannsson]

Yes, why the exact same look ? IMHO the look of craigslist is to
cluttered, and the design is most likely copyrighted.
Looks fast.


Trausti

[Marnen Laibow-Koser]

Trausti Thor Johannsson 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
mar...@marnen.org

[Patrick Aljord]

I don't think style is that important, don't like it? Just modify the
CSS and be happy.

[Rails List]

Thanks a million for the comments.

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 Donald]

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 2:47 AM, Rails
List<rails-mai...@andreas-s.net> wrote:
>
> not even a single feedback from rails enthusiasts!...mmm..strange

Your SEO is not.. optimal.

http://www.google.com/search?q=railslist.com

--
Greg Donald
http://destiney.com/

[Rails List]

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

1. Provision to change Titles
2. Ability to set your own Meta Keywords and Meta Descriptions
3. 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

[Billee D.]

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 List <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net>
wrote:

[Rails List]

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 List <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net>

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.

[Samer Abukhait]

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.

[Anton Mislavsky]

how to see the code? where to download it?

On Aug 16, 12:44 am, Rails List <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net>
wrote:

[Marnen Laibow-Koser]

Rails List 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
mar...@marnen.org

[Jason Arora]

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:

1) if a user submits a new classified, the app should auto-fill the
city and category (when possible)
3) go to the user's posting after activation


On Aug 15, 1:44 pm, Rails List <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net>
wrote:

[erwin]

Great ... where can we get the it ? Will localize and apply it to my
region...

erwin

On 15 août, 22:44, Rails List <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net>
wrote:

[Emanuele Tozzato]

good job! with open source you mean we can all help you working on the
project on github? I'm down with it!

--
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+1 (619) 549 3230
1985 Sherington Place, #E302
Newport Beach, CA 92663
http://mekdigital.com

[Robby Russell]

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

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[Rails List]

Robby Russell 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.

[Rails List]

it can be downloaded @ www.classifiedscript.in.

[Rails List]

I am yet to push it to github. will be doing so shortly

http://www.classifiedscript.in

[pharrington]

On Aug 18, 3:41 pm, Rails List <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net>
wrote:

can extract the archive with linux unzip for some reason

xeno@amrita:~/incoming$ unzip railslist-v1.0.zip
Archive: railslist-v1.0.zip
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is
not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In
the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found
on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of railslist-v1.0.zip or
railslist-v1.0.zip.zip, and cannot find railslist-
v1.0.zip.ZIP, period.

winrar works though. do you have a finnicky FTP client? (i'm usually
using some sort of scp when developing from Windows though, mayhaps
you should to?)




Also, the zip on your site looks to be missing tests. Maybe you
accidentally left these out when creating the zip ??

[Rails List]

> winrar works though. do you have a finnicky FTP client? (i'm usually
> using some sort of scp when developing from Windows though, mayhaps
> you should to?)

This is the first time, i have released a file/files of some kind. So,
i am not sure which one works for all in all environment. I used 7-zip.
Suggest me, i will rezip and send upload again. could it be a naming
issue?. not sure

>
> Also, the zip on your site looks to be missing tests. Maybe you
> accidentally left these out when creating the zip ??

The question I was dreading. I flunked on this testing part. I will
create tests and upload them in a day or two.

by the way, i am looking for a ruby/rails based forum. does anyone know
any?. RForum (script that powers this forum) doesn't seem to work.

[Colin Law]

2009/8/19 Rails List <rails-mai...@andreas-s.net>:

If RForum is the script that powers this forum and you posted via it,
how can it be that it doesn't work?

Colin

[Rails List]

Colin Law wrote:
> 2009/8/19 Rails List <rails-mai...@andreas-s.net>:

>>> accidentally left these out when creating the zip ??
>>
>> The question I was dreading. I flunked on this testing part.  I will
>> create tests and upload them in a day or two.
>>
>> by the way, i am looking for a ruby/rails based forum.  does anyone know
>> any?.  RForum (script that powers this forum) doesn't seem to work.
>> --
>> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
> If RForum is the script that powers this forum and you posted via it,
> how can it be that it doesn't work?
>
> Colin

Its just that the rails and ruby version it uses is different from what
I use :-)

[Anton Mislavsky]

Please check your ruby command on the website in the installation
section.
Change rake:schema:load for rake db:schema:load

On Aug 16, 12:44 am, Rails List <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net>

[Rails Girl]

Hi,

Is this RailsList now available on GitHub...?

Pl. provide a direct link for GitHub... What are the next features that
would be added up to this RailsList...?

Thx

[Rails List]

Rails Girl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is this RailsList now available on GitHub...?
>
> Pl. provide a direct link for GitHub... What are the next features that
> would be added up to this RailsList...?
>
> Thx

Yep - http://github.com/railslist/craigslist-clone

let me know if there any issues downloading it.

[Joe A.]

This particular project is for that of a grander purpose.

Cure AIDS Now (CAN) Foundation is undergoing clinical trails with
Google.org to release a non-toxic anti viral patch to cost-effectively
suppress HIV. The long term approach includes the solidification of a
$50B bond to distribute cure nebulizers with integrated IP addresses to
be linked with Google satellites. This will lead to the anonymous
identification and tracking of all those who suffer from HIV around the
World. Eventually leading to a meta-moment in which HIV/AIDS is
eradicated from Earth.

The overall goal is to eliminate the human immunodeficiency virus from
the human genome.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This particular gig is to deploy a Craigslist style website specifically
geared toward the HIV community. The main purpose for this subsidiary of
the CAN Foundation is to develop a perpetual can goods and fund drive
for the community.

Basic functionality should include 1) posts by location, 2) anonymously
generated private messaging and 3) event calendar -- exactly similar to
the functionality of Craigslist

Implementation of this project should be deployed in two phases:

Phase 1) Deploy RailsList
(https://github.com/railslist/craigslist-clone)
Phase 2) Enhance UI (Desired UI will be created in Photoshop and PSD's
will be sent over to you)
* Note: basically UI enhancements includes a colored background,
different placement of certain modules, and change in fonts -- pretty
simple enhancements.

Requirements:
1) Must be proficient with Ruby on Rails
2) Must provide your own stage/development hosting server
3) Must a very quick turnaround (phase 1 within 24 hours).

Deliverable:

Final website deployed/migrated onto a dedicated web hosting server.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This project is with Mr. Brando Bronzino - creator of the Rock & Roll
Hall of Fame and Mr. Lynn Luckow - founder of Craigslist.com

Upon successful completion of this gig, you are entitled to a position
on the Cure AIDS Now Foundation team as chief web master and 5% of
charitable funds.