Kopongo

That site's at cotswold.co.za.

We wanted to create a guest house site with the text in various languages.

Since the people who were going to translate the site from english into [French|Italian|German] were going to be 'geographically distributed', and not likely available at the same time, I thought it would be too complex to coordinate all those translations and the updating of the site. Creating the site in rails as a CMS was the easiest way to deal with it. When someone is ready to add or translate text, they can login and do so.

Basic Ingredients: Rails and postgres, along with the globalize, file_column and exception_notification plugin.

A friend wanted to set up a site for gigs going on in Cape Town. A site where regular folk could consult to figure out who was playing where on a given night, and where musicians or bars could list gigs and events.

I wrote zalist.co.za up to show him how it could be done in rails.

Ingredients: postgres, rails.