Latest News

As you might have noticed, there has been some trouble with the RSS feeds lately, with obscured URLs and other glitches.

These issues should be resolved now, all links in the RSS feed items should be properly linked up.

In the Recently Added Projects feed, now you will also see the category the project has been added to. Thanks to the people pointing out that this should be included in the feed items, sometimes one forgets about the most obvious things…

Because of these changes, feed items might reappear in your RSS reader (i.e. this happens in Google Reader) – Sorry for the inconvenience, I will think about reworking the feed generation to avoid such mess in the future.

Currently, there is some trouble with the Technorati API – all blog posts linking to the Github repositories have their dates reported as 1970/1/1, which obviously does not make much sense. So for now, the Projects in the news feed is pretty much useless, since no new items will appear. Hopefully Technorati will get things fixed and the posts will get proper dates again.

Until then the actual blog post listings for all projects in their categories’ detail view are still appearing (“39 years ago”), but at least they are there if you want to find some resources on your pick.

In other news, a couple of all-new categories have been added over the last couple of days – be sure to check out the listings for Active Record Named Scopes, irb Tools, Rails Form Builders, Rails In Place Editing, Rails Ratings and Wiki Apps

Finally, here is the news post promised almost two weeks ago. In the last two weeks, a couple of updates have found their way to The Ruby Toolbox. Apart from various updates to the layout and other minor improvements, there are three major feature additions, which I will cover in a little more detail.

Projects and Categories listings

In the top navigation bar, you will now find links to listings for categories and projects. They also have some rather nice tooltips, so try and hover them :)

The super-ugly dropdown cateogry selector in the upper right has also been replaced by a fancier navigation which hopefully also addresses the increasing navigation issues that grew out of the old select tag with the boatload of categories that have been added since the Toolbox launched.

Project news

Thanks to the Technorati API, each project now has a listing of blog posts featuring information about it.

The search is done based upon links to the project’s Github repository, so all you people out there writing about something Ruby that is hosted on Github and featured here, please remember to link up the project repo from within your post!

Assuming your blog is being indexed by Technorati, your post should appear on the corresponding project’s category listing. Please let me know if there are issues with that!

The inclusion of project news from the blogosphere leads us straight to the next big addition:

Feeds

Plenty of people have been asking for them, and yes, they finally have arrived!

Apart from the obvious feed for this latest news blog, there are also feeds for recently added categories, recently added projects and, last but not least, a feed for the aforementioned blogosphere index, which will give you the latest blogposts about projects covered in The Ruby Toolbox.

I hope you will enjoy the new features. Please let me know what you would like to see in The Ruby Toolbox and of course you’re free to report any issues and projects currently missing!

First of all welcome to the all-new Ruby Toolbox news blog!

I used some spare time this weekend to roll out a couple of major improvements to the Ruby Toolbox, one of them being this blog.

I need to get some sleep now, finally, so help yourself and take a look around to see what’s new – a full post on the improvements will follow soon!

Minor layout issues resolved, plenty of projects added.

The Ruby Toolbox has been launched!