Two-weekend website: Applican
A couple of weeks ago, in the middle of getting DreamBank ready for launch I was feeling like I needed a break. Of course that meant “what can I develop in Rails over a single weekend?” See, I had an idea for an application that would fulfill a need we had at DreamBank: how to manage incoming applicants and resumes against available job positions and I was pretty sure it would go.
My one-weekend project became a two weekend project and a bunch more time was shoe-horned in here and there for bug fixes and improvements until it was finally usable. And then we really got serious about the other launch and development got forgotten; it was released and functional and - dare I say it - even useful but neglected.
I now present to you “Applican“, a Rails-based resume/applicant/job tracker designed (as much as it has been) as an internal tool for small & medium-sized companies. For more details see the proto-documentation here.
I consider the current release to be about v0.4: it works, it’s useful, it undoubtedly has bugs, they’re may not be critical, there’s definitely functionality to be added. It’s free, it’s open-sourced, it’s available on Github and it require Rails 2.1.
(Apologies to Robert Rodriguez for stealing and bastardizing one of the best lines in cinema history).
