Innovative Automation

Innovative Automation is an Indianapolis-based company that buys, services, and sells Amada punch-presses and other industrial machinery. I set up the back end and interface using Ruby on Rails, and used a variety of creative commons and open source technology to quickly get the site up and running. The design was modified from the Midnight template, available via a Creative Commons 2.5 Attribution license from Free CSS Templates. I also made use of Lokesh Dhakar's wonderful Lightbox v2 script for image display, and Anssi Piirainen's FlowPlayer for product videos.

The result of using these open-source and creative commons technologies was that Innovative Automation got a high-quality web site with an easy-to-use backend within a month. The interface allows the client to handle updating product details, uploading product images, creating slideshows to demonstrate their service capabilities, and uploading videos to display their products in action.

Inno-auto.com

Robert and Carol's Wedding

This was a site requested by a family member who wanted to create a centralized location for tracking all the various things relating to their upcoming wedding. The site is currently only a prototype made with Ruby on Rails. The backend is a secured version of the rails pre-constructed scaffolding. The upshot of all this is that the entire site as-is was built in three days flat, and the demo was posted for my client shortly thereafter.

Demo Wedding Page

Webcomica

A webcomic hosting application I created in Ruby on Rails. I had several friends asking if I knew any good places to host webcomics, and I did not know of any such places. So, I took about two weeks to build this application in Ruby on Rails. Unfortunately, most of my friends lost interest and the time necessary to work on web comics, but I left the application up in case it became useful.

Live Demo

Artopolis

Artopolis was another project to learn more about quickly developing web applications using Ruby on Rails. The idea was to create a clone of DeviantArt with strong interface improvements for use by friends and family. The project was abandoned about halfway through due to the urgency of class projects, but since it was developed before the file_column plugin, this application still shows some relatively advanced file manipulation and scripting capabilities.

Live Demo
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Ruby Classroom

A project completed during the summer of 2006, Ruby Classroom is a classroom management web application targeted at secondary school educators. The primary purpose of the project was to learn Ruby on Rails, and how to use it to speed web development. It accomplished this goal handily, and I also got some real-world experience with server deployment and configuration for Ruby on Rails.

Live Demo
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