Hey all,

We (ADS) launched http://www.whatsupinruby.com this morning. This is a
niche site that does two things:

1. Tells you what is going on in the Ruby world (we parse many many
RSS feeds).
2. Provides search of sites only relevant to Ruby, including Rails,
Merb, Rubinius and more.

Check it out at http://www.whatsupinruby.com and let us know what you
think. Read the About page to learn what we have in this beta release
and what is upcoming for 1.0.

- Rob Dempsey

On Apr 22, 2008, at 5:02 PM, Robert Dempsey wrote:

Robert,

Neat idea. One minor thing that I must ask... why JSP over a Ruby  
framework? ;-)

Robby
--
Robby Russell
ro...@planetargon.com

Robby,

Thanks. We are actually using a combination of Java, Python, and Rails to
make up the entire site. This is the first in a series of sites that we are
launching. More to come.

- Rob

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Robby Russell <ro...@planetargon.com>
wrote:

What's the point in having a variety of languages for the site?

~~ Robert.

On Apr 23, 2008, at 12:20 AM, Robert Dempsey wrote:

What it came down to for us was what worked best for every part of the
site. We found the combination of technologies works best.

- Robert Dempsey

On Apr 23, 1:22 am, Robert Fischer <robert.fisc...@SmokejumperIT.com>
wrote:

On 23.4.2008, at 9.08, Robert Dempsey wrote:

Would you mind elaborating on some details about that decision?

Cheers,
//jarkko

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Jarkko Laine
http://jlaine.net
http://dotherightthing.com
http://www.railsecommerce.com
http://odesign.fi

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On Apr 23, 2:08 am, Robert Dempsey <robertonra...@gmail.com> wrote:

You mean Ruby isn't 100% always the answer for everything? :(

On Apr 22, 8:02 pm, Robert Dempsey <robertonra...@gmail.com> wrote:

Neat idea. Now, when does 1.0 come out so I can submit our blog fed
for inclusion?

cheers,
Colin

Colin - we will definitely let you know so you can add your feed and
site. We are looking at a 1.0 between 1-2 months if not sooner.

Jarkko - a lot of what we are doing with these sites
(whatsupinruby.com is the first to be release) is in the same vein as
Google in terms of using map/reduce over clusters of computers (and no
we are not trying to compete with Google just in case you were
wondering ;). To that end we are using a lot of python integrated with
Java server technologies.

It also gave us a reason to try something new.

- Robert Dempsey

I'll be doing a post on our blog (http://rorblog.techcfl.com) on our
technology choices in the coming weeks to answer a lot of questions as
well.

- Robert Dempsey

Hey all,

We just released a major update to What's up in Ruby. And an FYI, it
is 100% Ruby and Rails!

Check out the site here: http://www.whatsupinruby.com
Learn about this update here: http://rorblog.techcfl.com/2008/04/29/replacing-the-rss-reader/

We look forward to your feedback.

Sincerely,

Robert Dempsey
http://www.techcfl.com