About BuildingWebApps

Combining Aggregation and Editorial

BuildingWebApps includes an extensive set of links to the best resources on the web, plus our own original articles.

We hand-pick the links to separate the fluff from the substance and to eliminate outdated articles, which can be especially problematic with a fast-moving framework like Ruby on Rails.

All content on BuildingWebApps is provided free of charge as a service to the community.

A New Approach to Organizing

We’re exploring new approaches to organizing information.

Unlike the unstructured tag cloud used on most sites, we use a tree-structured taxonomy. One benefit of this is that higher-level categories aggregate content from their sub-categories.

We also organize the links by the kind of resource they represent: articles, software, documentation, events, etc. We believe this can make it easier to find what you’re looking for.

Helping Newcomers to the Rails Framework

Most of the content on the web about Ruby on Rails is written for people who are already up-to-speed on the basics.

Our Learning Rails free online course is designed to enable designers and developers who have no experience with model-view-controller frameworks or object-oriented programming learn to use Rails. The course begins with audio podcasts to explain the basic concepts, and continues with screencasts in which we build a basic Rails site, step by step.

How You Can Contribute

You can help build this valuable resource for the web application community.