attics of my life

I didn't see this anywhere on the web so I'll post the configuration here for PlanetRubyonRails and pound for redirecting to feedburner. You can skip the HeadRequire part if you are only hosting one app.

Service
    HeadRequire "Host:*.www.server_name.org.*"
    URL "/xml/atom"
    Redirect "http://feeds.feedburner.com/"
End
Service
    HeadRequire "Host:*.www.server_name.org.*"
    URL "/xml/rss"
    Redirect "http://feeds.feedburner.com/"
End

I just added a few new feeds to the planet. They are:

• Jason Watkins
• Scott Raymond
• Jamis Buck
• Projectionist
• PragDave - Dave Thomas
• Chad Fowler
• (24)slash7 - Amy Hoy

I just noticed on Artima Ruby Buzz that Victor put up a new railsplanet for Spanish speaking Rails developers at Planeta Rails.

I just added two new blogs to PlanetRubyOnRails. One is the Ruby on Rails Podcast, the other is Tourbus Developer Blog.

I updated the PlanetRubyOnRails site today in anticipation of a new release soon. I need to let the cron job run for a few days with a lot of feeds in a live setting to make sure there are no performance issues.

New stuff and bugs fixed:

• Tags from categories and tags
• Use guid instead of title for post searching of duplicates
• Get entry author name for blogs with multiple authors.
• Theme support
• Convert settings to db, instead of old config file
• Move to FeedTools

If all goes well this week, I'll probably try to do a release next weekend.

On Feb. 2, PlanetRubyonRails turned 1. So tonight I decided to look back over the stats to see how much it has grown over the last year. Below is a graph from Excel that charts the unique visitors by month.

Some other interesting things that I found out are:

• Total posts from approved feeds over the last year: 4845
• Total Number of feeds server: 1,271,461, RSS: 957,090 ATOM: 314,371
• The largest number of posts was from the RubyOnRails Weblog at 508. Second was Robby Russell at 301.
• Greater than 90% of the page views are to a feed (rss, atom)
• NetNewsWire represents 16% of all hits, the other RSS apps are too low to show up or the versions are all over the place.
• OS X accounts for approximately 25% of all hits, Windows approximately 20%, Linux approximately 18%.

So, for the last few months I've been too busy to work on the Planet RubyOnRails code. We launched last week and that has freed up some time. So here's the list of upcoming stuff:

• Crawler now based on FeedTools
• Feed caching via FeedTools, cron job can now be run as often as you like and feeds are only retrieved if their ttl has expired
• First Run account creation
• Category/Tags support from feed categories
• Theme support from the theme support plugin
• Pages support with Textile markup like Typo
• A whole slew of bugfixes, and HTML fixes
• Working tests

I've been talking to Victor about adding some more stuff, like ping support, and configurable sidebar support, like Typo.

I just put up release 0.0.1 of the Rails Planet code. Most of the features from my last post did make it in. Some things are broken still, but the constant problem of it going down was beginning to grate on me and this new code fixes those issues. Downloads are available on RubyForge at: http://rubyforge.org/projects/railsplanet/

A svn repository is available for trunk at:

svn co http://wush.net/svn/rails_planet/trunk

You need to gem install simple-rss prior to running.

A Trac instance will be available shortly.

There will be a public repository available in the next few days after I get a handful of bugs fixed/features implemented. Some of the new features/bug fixes are:

• New layout and style
• UTF 8 support
• Postgresql / MySQL schema
• OPML of all feeds
• Fetching feed details on suggestion
• Email notification of suggestion
• Multiple administration users
• Unit tests
• New RSS/ATOM parsing
• Auto unpublished status after # of days of bouncing
• Detailed email report of failures
• Updated to rails 0.13.1 render and find
• Gripes / Suggestions contact page
• No more duplicate feed submittals

I had to do some digging to find this library from Lucas Carlson. Now Planet Rails can start supporting ATOM feeds.

Thanks go to Tobias for the original code. I'm really excited about some of the changes mostly because it makes managing it easier.