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Bedtime reading: Joyent Connector is now open source
Joyent recently open sourced both Slingshot, their toolset/library for developing offline Rails apps, and Connector, an online suite of collaboration tools for small businesses.
The Connector source code particularly interests me. There’s already plenty of great open source Rails projects out there (Beast and Mephisto come to mind), but as far as I can tell, this is the first instance of a commercial Rails application being open sourced, by a reputable organization like Joyent no less. IMHO, there’s no better way to learn Rails than from finished, deployed software, and Connector is no exception: it’s composed of slick, well-written code.
Here’s a look at Connector in action:
