[ANN] Planet Ruby - All the News About Ruby, JRuby, Rubinius, Rails, etc. - New Feeds Welcome

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1

Hello,

   I've setup (another) Planet Ruby [1] - a public news site (feed
reader/aggregator) for Ruby.

   The planet subscriptions (feed lists) are split into seven sections
(sub planets), that is,

  - Planet Ruby - Blog Postings, Articles, etc.
  - Planet Ruby News - Official Ruby, JRuby, Rubinius, Rubygems, Rails News
  - Planet Ruby Events - Meetups, Workshops, Conferences
  - Planet Jekyll - The Static Site Generator in Ruby
  - Planet Ruby Gems - Version Releases, Discussions
  - Planet Ruby Podcasts - Radio Shows
  - Planet Ruby Meta - Updates about Planet Ruby and Planet Pluto

  The planet feed list is a plain text file on GitHub, that is, ruby.ini [2].
You're welcome to add new feeds or suggest new (sub) planet sites.
Planet Ruby itself is powered by the pluto gem. [3]
Happy Planet. Happy Festivus. Merry Christmas. Seasons Greetings. Cheers

[1] planetruby.herokuapp.com
[2] github.com/feedreader/planet-ruby
[3] rubygems.org/gems/pluto

2

Hello,

there is already at least one Planet Ruby http://planetruby.0x42.net/ , but
I don't know it's history and exact purpose and it seems to be half-dead or
very lazy. So - a more dynamic Planet Ruby is definitely welcome.

However, I gravely miss RSS or Atom feeds. Do you plan to add them?

Regards,

Jakub

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"Hello,

I've setup (another) Planet Ruby [1] - a public news site (feed
reader/aggregator) for Ruby.

The planet subscriptions (feed lists) are split into seven sections
(sub planets), that is,

- Planet Ruby - Blog Postings, Articles, etc.
- Planet Ruby News - Official Ruby, JRuby, Rubinius, Rubygems, Rails News
- Planet Ruby Events - Meetups, Workshops, Conferences
- Planet Jekyll - The Static Site Generator in Ruby
- Planet Ruby Gems - Version Releases, Discussions
- Planet Ruby Podcasts - Radio Shows
- Planet Ruby Meta - Updates about Planet Ruby and Planet Pluto

The planet feed list is a plain text file on GitHub, that is, ruby.ini [2].
You're welcome to add new feeds or suggest new (sub) planet sites.
Planet Ruby itself is powered by the pluto gem. [3]
Happy Planet. Happy Festivus. Merry Christmas. Seasons Greetings. Cheers

[1] planetruby.herokuapp.com
[2] github.com/feedreader/planet-ruby
[3] rubygems.org/gems/pluto"

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Datum: 26. 12. 2014 18:29:56

3

Hi Gerald,

the planetruby.herokuapp.com website actually only shows me an “Internal
Server Error” page. You should probably fix that :slight_smile:

Apart from that, are there any guidelines on content? Specifically, must
it be English or do you accept e.g. blogs in other languages, as long as
they are Ruby-related? I ask because I once tried to set up a planet
collecting German articles on Ruby, especially with regard to newcomers
to the language, but the interest I got back from devs I talked to was
so low I gave up on the project. Still, it would be nice if there was a
place for content on Ruby in languages other than English. Finding those
is quite difficult otherwise; ideally, it was possible to filter the
page/feeds by language.

Vale,
Quintus

Gerald Bauer <gerald.bauer@gmail.com> writes:

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Hello,

   I've setup (another) Planet Ruby [1] - a public news site (feed
reader/aggregator) for Ruby.

   The planet subscriptions (feed lists) are split into seven sections
(sub planets), that is,

  - Planet Ruby - Blog Postings, Articles, etc.
  - Planet Ruby News - Official Ruby, JRuby, Rubinius, Rubygems, Rails News
  - Planet Ruby Events - Meetups, Workshops, Conferences
  - Planet Jekyll - The Static Site Generator in Ruby
  - Planet Ruby Gems - Version Releases, Discussions
  - Planet Ruby Podcasts - Radio Shows
  - Planet Ruby Meta - Updates about Planet Ruby and Planet Pluto

  The planet feed list is a plain text file on GitHub, that is, ruby.ini [2].
You're welcome to add new feeds or suggest new (sub) planet sites.
Planet Ruby itself is powered by the pluto gem. [3]
Happy Planet. Happy Festivus. Merry Christmas. Seasons Greetings. Cheers

[1] planetruby.herokuapp.com
[2] github.com/feedreader/planet-ruby
[3] rubygems.org/gems/pluto

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Hi Gerald,

the planetruby.herokuapp.com website actually only shows me an “Internal
Server Error” page. You should probably fix that :slight_smile:

Apart from that, are there any guidelines on content? Specifically, must
it be English or do you accept e.g. blogs in other languages, as long as
they are Ruby-related? I ask because I once tried to set up a planet
collecting German articles on Ruby, especially with regard to newcomers
to the language, but the interest I got back from devs I talked to was
so low I gave up on the project. Still, it would be nice if there was a
place for content on Ruby in languages other than English. Finding those
is quite difficult otherwise; ideally, it was possible to filter the
page/feeds by language.

Vale,
Quintus

Gerald Bauer <gerald.bauer@gmail.com> writes:

···

Hello,

   I've setup (another) Planet Ruby [1] - a public news site (feed
reader/aggregator) for Ruby.

   The planet subscriptions (feed lists) are split into seven sections
(sub planets), that is,

  - Planet Ruby - Blog Postings, Articles, etc.
  - Planet Ruby News - Official Ruby, JRuby, Rubinius, Rubygems, Rails News
  - Planet Ruby Events - Meetups, Workshops, Conferences
  - Planet Jekyll - The Static Site Generator in Ruby
  - Planet Ruby Gems - Version Releases, Discussions
  - Planet Ruby Podcasts - Radio Shows
  - Planet Ruby Meta - Updates about Planet Ruby and Planet Pluto

  The planet feed list is a plain text file on GitHub, that is, ruby.ini [2].
You're welcome to add new feeds or suggest new (sub) planet sites.
Planet Ruby itself is powered by the pluto gem. [3]
Happy Planet. Happy Festivus. Merry Christmas. Seasons Greetings. Cheers

[1] planetruby.herokuapp.com
[2] github.com/feedreader/planet-ruby
[3] rubygems.org/gems/pluto

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Hello,
   Thanks for your comments. The "new" Planet Ruby is still a little
rough. What's different - the Planet Ruby is actually powered by Ruby
:wink: and all code and templates are public domain (free, open source,
that is, license free). One idea is to move the Planet Ruby
eventually to plantet.ruby-lang.org

There's a planet template package for feeds (rss,atom,opml) in the
works [1] You're always welcome to help out and make it happen.
Cheers. Happy planet.

[1] github.com/planet-templates/planet-feeds

6

Hello,

Hi Gerald,

the planetruby.herokuapp.com website actually only shows me an “Internal
Server Error” page. You should probably fix that :slight_smile:

Apart from that, are there any guidelines on content? Specifically, must
it be English or do you accept e.g. blogs in other languages, as long as
they are Ruby-related? I ask because I once tried to set up a planet
collecting German articles on Ruby, especially with regard to newcomers
to the language, but the interest I got back from devs I talked to was
so low I gave up on the project. Still, it would be nice if there was a
place for content on Ruby in languages other than English. Finding those
is quite difficult otherwise; ideally, it was possible to filter the
page/feeds by language.

This could be accomplished, at least for some languages, using this gem I came across some time ago GitHub - peterc/whatlanguage: A language detection library for Ruby that uses bloom filters for speed.

regards,

Panagiotis (atmosx) Atmatzidis

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7

Hello,
> the planetruby.herokuapp.com website actually only shows

me an “Internal Server Error” page. You should probably fix that :slight_smile:

  Thanks for the reminder. The planet is back up (was a db connection
error - sorry). Still the early days.

Apart from that, are there any guidelines on content? Specifically, must
it be English or do you accept e.g. blogs in other languages, as long as
they are Ruby-related? I ask because I once tried to set up a planet
collecting German articles on Ruby, especially with regard to newcomers
to the language, but the interest I got back from devs I talked to was
so low I gave up on the project. Still, it would be nice if there was a
place for content on Ruby in languages other than English. Finding those
is quite difficult otherwise; ideally, it was possible to filter the
page/feeds by language.

   The idea/concept of the Ruby Planet is to have (sub)planets /
sections - currently there are nine sections - so one option might be
to have a section for posts in spanish or a section for posts in
german, for example.

   I'd say it might actually be better to setup up your own Planet
Rubyfor your language (it shouldn't be too hard). For example, Marvin
Gülker has setup a version in German (Deutsch) a while ago [1][2] -
just found out about a week ago (thanks to GitHub).

  All planet (pluto) tooling is in Ruby :wink: and public domain (that
is, free and open source, that is license-free).

  Cheers.

[1] planet.ruby-portal.de - source @ github.com/Quintus/rubyplanet
[2] groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/feedreader/AY4uqhaZfgU

8

Hello,

  Ha. Sorry. Didn't connect the dots. Great stuff. Do NOT give up. I
encourage you to relaunch/restart the Planet Ruby DE - great
initiative. I had no idea (just found it by accident on GitHub last
week).

  If you restart/relaunch I can add the Planet Ruby DE link to the
Ruby Planet - of course and maybe we can get others to setup a Planent
in Japanese, Spanish, etc. Cheers.

9

Hi Gerald,

the webpage is still giving an Internal Server Error :slight_smile:

Gerald Bauer <gerald.bauer@gmail.com> writes:

Hello,

  Ha. Sorry. Didn't connect the dots. Great stuff.

Haha :-). Yes, this is me. In all the time I was not able to collect a
single person apart from me who blogged about Ruby in German. And worse,
I blogged very little later on also (though not specifically related to
Ruby, I blogged very little generally).

The main issue I encountered when talking to other devs was that they
did not feel the need to ever post something in German - audience to
small. The general opinion in the German Ruby community seems to be that
anyone who wants to learn Ruby or even any programming language has to
be firm in English, period. It’s a sad state that isn’t really friendly
towards beginners who will then more likely go with Python, which
appears to have far more resources in German (and probably in other
languages).

While we are at the topic, I also invite everyone speaking German to
join the only existant German-speaking Ruby forum on the web at
http://forum.ruby-portal.de -- it has already existed for a long time
(10th aniversary recently), but it has seen a massive decrease in users
during the last two years. It was actually debated to close it down
alltogether[1], which I think should be prevented if possible.

Do NOT give up. I
encourage you to relaunch/restart the Planet Ruby DE - great
initiative. I had no idea (just found it by accident on GitHub last
week).

I will gladly do if I can collect some blog feeds, say at least
two. Apart from that it just occured to me I could include the feeds of
the remaining German Ruby user groups, though that’s a bit problematic
on itself (the Berlin RUG for example is mainly doing English only due
to the fact most of its attendees do not even understand German).

  If you restart/relaunch I can add the Planet Ruby DE link to the
Ruby Planet - of course and maybe we can get others to setup a Planent
in Japanese, Spanish, etc. Cheers.

Thanks for encouragement. I really like this idea: A universe of Ruby
planets! We could link them all with one another and thereby show
there’s an active Ruby community all over the world.

Okay, I will give it a second shot. Please, if anyone has links to
German Ruby resources, send them to me. I will set up a Git repo later
for the planet so that you can fork and add URLs yourself, but for now
just post them here or email me directly (probably better as it would
probably be considered spamming on the ruby-talk list otherwise) if you
have something.

Valete,
Quintus

[1]: http://forum.ruby-portal.de/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=26554

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Thread name: "Re: [ANN] Planet Ruby - All the News About Ruby, JRuby, Rubinius, Rails, etc. - New Feeds Welcome"
Mail number: 4
In reply to: Quintus

> If you restart/relaunch I can add the Planet Ruby DE link to the
> Ruby Planet - of course and maybe we can get others to setup a Planent
> in Japanese, Spanish, etc. Cheers.

Thanks for encouragement. I really like this idea: A universe of Ruby
planets! We could link them all with one another and thereby show
there’s an active Ruby community all over the world.

Okay, I will give it a second shot. Please, if anyone has links to
German Ruby resources, send them to me. I will set up a Git repo later
for the planet so that you can fork and add URLs yourself, but for now
just post them here or email me directly (probably better as it would
probably be considered spamming on the ruby-talk list otherwise) if you
have something.

I'm trying pluto for begin a planet in spanish but it is not working
for me, I having the following error :-/

lazaro@leviatan:~/planet$ pluto b
fetcher/0.4.4 on Ruby 2.1.4 (2014-10-27) [i686-linux]
feedutils/0.4.0 (with stdlib rss/0.2.7) on Ruby 2.1.4 (2014-10-27) [i686-linux]
activityutils/0.1.0 on Ruby 2.1.4 (2014-10-27) [i686-linux]
pluto/1.0.1 on Ruby 2.1.4 (2014-10-27) [i686-linux]
pluto/1.0.1 on Ruby 2.1.4 (2014-10-27) [i686-linux]
db settings:
{:adapter=>"sqlite3", :database=>"./pluto.db"}
dump >pluto.ini<:
{"title"=>"Planet Ruby",
"rubyflow"=>
  {"title"=>"Ruby Flow",
   "link"=>"http://rubyflow.com",
   "feed"=>"RubyFlow},
"rubyonrails"=>
  {"title"=>"Ruby on Rails Blog",
   "link"=>"http://weblog.rubyonrails.org",
   "feed"=>"http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/feed/atom.xml&quot;\},
"viennarb"=>
  {"title"=>"vienna.rb Blog",
   "link"=>"http://vienna-rb.at",
   "feed"=>"http://vienna-rb.at/atom.xml&quot;\}}

*** error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 0)

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Date: Tue, Dec 30, 2014

11

Hello,

the webpage is still giving an Internal Server Error :slight_smile:

  Oops. Looks like the database connection got lost again. Sorry. The
planet is back up again. I will "upgrade" the mini pluto.live [1]
script from Sinatra to Rails in the next days (to make sure the app
can simply reconnect when the database connection gets lost).

   I encourage you to restart/relaunch the planet in Deutsch (German).
I'm actually from (near) Vienna, Austria (native speaker in German
;-))

  The official Ruby site leads with a great example :wink: Find the
German version @ Die Programmiersprache Ruby

  and to include the news feed use something like

[rubylangde]
  title = Ruby Nachrichten
  site = Die Programmiersprache Ruby
  feed = Ruby RSS News

   Keep it up. Dran bleiben. Cheers. Prosit 2015.

[1] github.com/feedreader/pluto.live

12

Hello,

I'm trying pluto for begin a planet in spanish but it is not working
for me, I having the following error :-/

  Thanks for trying to setup a planet in spanish.

pluto/1.0.1

  Can you please make sure you have the latest (and greatest :wink:
version, that is, 1.1.0. Use something like:

$ gem update pluto or
$ gem install pluto

  to update your installation.

lazaro@leviatan:~/planet$ pluto b

  It's recommend that you pass along the planet configuration as
argument following the build command e.g.

  $ pluto b ruby or
  $ pluto build ruby.ini

  If it still fails, can you please use the --verbose option and send
along the traceback/stacktrace e.g.

  $ pluto --verbose build ruby.ini

  Thanks. Keep it up. Cheers.

13

Lázaro Armando <lazaro@hcg.sld.cu> writes:

I'm trying pluto for begin a planet in spanish but it is not working
for me, I having the following error :-/

Hang on, and you will succeed :-). Any new planet is really appreciated.

Vale,
Quintus

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Gerald Bauer <gerald.bauer@gmail.com> writes:

  The official Ruby site leads with a great example :wink: Find the
German version @ Die Programmiersprache Ruby

And now guess who was the person who translated a great number of the
posts on ruby-lang.org to German. I’m glad stomar (Marcus Stollheimer)
now also does a lot of translation, but if you look at some of the older
posts you will notice it was nearly only me who was doing the
translations.

   Keep it up. Dran bleiben. Cheers. Prosit 2015.

Prosit!

Vale,
Quintus

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Gerald Bauer <gerald.bauer@gmail.com> writes:

   I encourage you to restart/relaunch the planet in Deutsch (German).
I'm actually from (near) Vienna, Austria (native speaker in German
;-))

Okay, here we go. http://planet.ruby-portal.de is back up now, but it’s
only (active) feed are the official German Ruby News. The repository is
at GitHub - Quintus/rubyplanet: The German Ruby planet., now with the current version
of Pluto. Please! If you have any feeds for me, tell me!

* * * * * *

Aufruf an deutschsprachige Ruby-Nutzer: Feeds zu Ruby mit
deutschsprachigen Inhalten gesucht! Bitte per E-Mail an mich oder ein PR
gegen das Repository auf GitHub - Quintus/rubyplanet: The German Ruby planet. stellen!

Der Planet ist unter http://planet.ruby-portal.de verfügbar.

* * * * * *

I hope it will have more success now than the last time.

Valete,
Quintus

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I have added the RUG’s feeds to the planet now.

Gerald, didn’t you know about the http://onruby.de and http://onruby.at
websites? They strive to collect all the websites for Ruby usergroups in
the German-speaking area, but while I see the (obviously inactive) RUG
of Innsbruck listed, the one of Vienna is missing. Maybe you should drop
a message to the ML (ahem, Google Group...) of the Berlin Ruby Usergroup
to get it listed as they run that site as far as I know?

Vale,
Quintus

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And now guess who was the person who translated a great number of the
posts on ruby-lang.org to German. I’m glad stomar (Marcus Stollheimer)

Hi Quintus!

Close :slight_smile: (Marcus Stollsteimer)

now also does a lot of translation, but if you look at some of the older
posts you will notice it was nearly only me who was doing the
translations.

I spend most of my free Ruby time on the English pages, though,
so any more help with the German translation would be highly welcome!

BTW, that's true for every part of www.ruby-lang.org. So, if anyone
notices typos, outdated content, or whatever, please open an issue
or PR on GitHub!

(Sorry for being off-topic.)

Happy new year, ein gutes neues Jahr,
Marcus

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Hello,

   Fantastic. Great stuff. Thanks for the update and the links and sugestions.

  About finding more feeds - you might consider adding a section that
collects news for user groups, for example, the entry for Cologne.rb /
Kölsch.rb might be

[koelnrb]
   title = Cologne.rb / Kölsch.rb Stammtisch Treffen
   site = http://cologne.onruby.de
   feed = http://cologne.onruby.de/events.xml

  or something. That should get you a couple of more feeds to get the
planet rolling.

PS: Just a minor comment on the naming - I'd recommend using the format
Planet X e.g.
Planet Ruby, Planet Ruby (Deutsch) and so on (instead of Int'l Ruby
Planet, Ruby Planet DE and so on). Of course - it's up to you. Keep
it up. Dran bleiben. Prosit 2015! Happy New Year.

PPS: Also thanks for the translations of the Ruby News to German (Of
course, I had no clue).

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sto.mar@web.de writes:

Hi Quintus!

Close :slight_smile: (Marcus Stollsteimer)

Forgive me! :slight_smile:

I spend most of my free Ruby time on the English pages, though,
so any more help with the German translation would be highly welcome!

I know I should do more again. I was just getting a little frustrated
due to the low interesting in German Ruby resources. Have a look at this
forum posting[1] for a more in-depth discussion.

Happy new year, ein gutes neues Jahr,
Marcus

Frohes Neues!
Quintus

[1] http://forum.ruby-portal.de/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=26554

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