Is PlanetRubyOnRails Deprecated?

Posted by ryan
at 6:32 AM on Friday, June 02, 2006

RubyCorner has come along and provided a great service to the Ruby and Rails community by essentially taking over where PlanetRubyOnRails.org has stalled – providing Ruby related feed aggregation. I think this is great and RubyCorner is doing a great job with good functionality lilke favorites, blacklists etc..

However, does this mean that PlanetRubyOnRails is essentially dead? I can’t find anywhere to add or suggest a feed (that works). Maybe you have to be one of the Ruby elite to have a spot on the planet… It would be nice to see the service propped up a little better though – there’s got to be space for two such sites.

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  1. jim – May 24, 2006 @ 07:27 AM
    There's an email link at the bottom of the sidebar to me. The suggest feature was removed due to the number of requests I was receiving and having to filter through. Especially, in the early days when it seemed like 5-10 blogs a day were asking to be added. It's not dead, I have been busy working on other projects that have limited my time to be able to dedicate to it.
  2. Peter Cooper – May 24, 2006 @ 07:27 AM
    The intent is a mix of both. A few people have expressed an interest in posting, but I want to make sure the foundations are all there to keep it high quality and fresh.. so it's really just ramping up at the moment :) The way I like to describe it at the moment is.. "LifeHacker for Ruby" :)
  3. Ryan Daigle – May 24, 2006 @ 10:16 AM
    Thanks Jim! And I hope my post was viewed less as a gripe and more as a genuinely interested query. I have no doubt that the growing scale of the Rails community is a lot to manage.
  4. jim – May 24, 2006 @ 10:16 AM
    I just added you also.
  5. Aníbal Rojas – May 24, 2006 @ 10:16 AM
    I am one of the developers of RubyCorner, thanks a lot for your comments. One weird thing about RC is that we were bloggers first, later Ruby entushiasts, and RC was born under this sign. We understand blogs as a social thing, and we thing it is important to let people decide what their favorites are, and what they don't want to read. We think the better resources will emerge as a function of the social interaction between bloggers, not from the choice of a reduced group of people. Anyway RC is just an effort to help spread information about Ruby and Rails, and we are sure ANY resource is valuable. Thanks a lot again, and plz consider adding the little banner near the one of Typo ;-)
  6. Peter Cooper – May 25, 2006 @ 04:27 AM
    It's not quite the same, but I'm doing something tangentially related with Ruby Inside. It's less mechanical though, and only the choice posts are being brought across (except in the sidebars where it's just rolling Ruby news from all over).
  7. jim – May 25, 2006 @ 04:27 AM
    I didn't take it as a gripe. Some of it is, that I didn't understand the level of the undertaking when I started it. I hadn't heard of RubyCorner yet, so thanks for pointing that out. That's a pretty nice service.
  8. Ryan Daigle – May 25, 2006 @ 04:27 AM
    Peter, nice idea on "RubyInside":http://RubyInside.com. One question - who decides what is aggregated? Is it you or more of a community effort? And is the intent to get a group of bloggers to post their own content or to pull in the best of what everybody else is writing?
  9. Pratik – November 20, 2006 @ 02:16 AM
    Ryan, You might want to check out our new site http://www.planetrubyonrails.com Your post precisely explains the reason why it's there :) Thanks, Pratik