RubyCorner’s Blog

If you are not already using sake, you are loosing a very nice enhancement to common rake tasks.

Sake was developed by Chris Wanstrath, they are global rake tasks that once installed can be run in any rake enabled project. There are many new rake tasks from Rails Edge that are available as sakes, like db:reset, routes and a haml:transform that converts your RHTML views into beautiful HAML code.

While handy, this code snippets are difficult to locate, and that’s why we created SakeBar a directory of user submitted sake code snippets. Considering we did it in just the 48 hours of the RailsRumble its not bad, but don’t believe just please check it at:

http://vote.railsrumble.com/teams/34

And rate it yourself, run, voting will be closing tomorow.

After experiencing recurring problemss with our previous hosting provider RubyCorner is now hosted by our new sponsor, RailsPlayground.

Joe Clarke has done a great job hosting RubyCorner’s sister-site to2blogs. Now he will be taking care of RubyCorner’s performance and stability as well.

Thanks Joe!

Now you can add the RubyCorner search as a search provider to your browser.

This feature works in Internet Explorer 7, Firefox (1.5+ y 2.0). I didn’t test it but should works too in Mozilla, Netscape 6+ and Camino.

Just click the “Add this search to your browser” link and let your browser install the search provider.

We just added to RubyCorner a custom search engine (cse) using Google Co-op.

The goal is to provide a vertical search feature over the Ruby and Rails blogsphere. This CSE allows to search in all the blogs registered at RubyCorner (until now up to 240), and other sites like ruby-lang, ruby-forum, mailing lists, etc.

We just added a new feature to RubyCorner, a Blogs by Language lists. In order to help to categorize the blogs based on the language in which its written.
At the moment RubyCorner has blogs written in English, Spanish, French, Russian, Norwegian, Portuguese and German.

If you are experiencing trouble with the automatic ping to RubyCorner, please check that your unique “Ping URL” starts with:

http://www.rubycorner.com/ping/xmlrpc/

If you are in doubt please check this special URL at your blog configuration.

Remeber that if your CMS doesn’t support automatic pinging services via XML-RPC, you can just bookmark your “Ping URL” and visit it to make a plain REST ping.

At last we found time to release a new version of RubyCorner, the Ruby’s Blog Directory. There are a few new things to check:

• First and obvious, a new design! We are still looking for a good logo
• We added a language filter to the Last Updated and Last Registered lists, which allows you to select the languages of the blogs you want to see displayed.
• Now the ping service is a REST web service still compliant with the weblogs.com XML-RPC standard, supported by most CMSs and blogging services. And now it offers support for “bookmark ping” You can just grab your unique ping URL, bookmar it and visit it whenever you update your blog.

After 5 months online, more than 200 blogs has registered, ranging from Ruby on Rails beginners, to community mavens, and the traffic keeps growing.

We would like to say thank to all the people that has helped us with their suggestions, and support. And particularly to Pat Eyler, and Charles Brian Quin. And off course, we would like to know about your experience with the new design and features.

In the last days RubyCorner has been suffering (again) a heavy service disruption, we apologize for this problems with our hosting service: Site5.com. Since the problems we had in April, things were running smoothly, but the last week all the problems with the FastCGI processes came back.

We have been looking for a solution with technical support for this issues, but right now we are hopeless about it. As a desperate approach, trying to “reduce” the FastCGI load we moved this blog from Typo to WordPress, but we don’t actually think this will make any difference.

We will be looking for other options to keep RubyCorner up and running, and let you know.