What’s up in Ruby? Now with RSS and Feedback

We’re working to make What’s up in Ruby a valuable source for the Ruby community. Today we’ve added to that resource by adding a feedback form, an RSS feed of the conversation items, and a widget that you can embed on your site or blog and let everyone know about the latest conversations in the Ruby world. We are also continuing to improve our filtering and add enhanced support for phrases. Results are getting better.

One bit of feedback we got was on the search function. Currently, the search operates on our database of conversation items. If you search for a conversation item that we don’t have the site gracefully handles it but does not return any results. As we continue to improve our phrase support and parse greater number of blog posts (and more) so to will the search improve.

How often is the site updated? Great question. While you can always see the last time we did our update on the site, we update the site every 4 hours, starting at 10 AM, and then updating again at 2 PM, 6 PM, and so on.

Next up is allowing you all to provide suggestions of blogs we should add to our pull, along with showing you what we already pull from.

As always we are interested in your feedback. Please let us know what you think and how we can improve the site and make it a great resource for you.