Hi all
I wrote an application in Ruby on Rails which breaks up web pages and allow you to weave these pieces together into your own personal page, similar to a tapestry. I would like to invite interested programmers and web users alike to take a look and, if possible, give me some feedbacks/criticisms so I can improve the site. The goal here is to stretch Ruby on Rails to see what it can really do, maybe growing the site into a showcase for this new technology. There are good examples of AJAX, drag and drop, and other DHTML techniques too.
I have had various success in scraping web pages, some are easier to scrape than others. Some do not look right at all, but generally, sites that have lots of tables of dynamic contents are the best to scrape (like Yahoo Financial pages, for instance). Site with a lot of CSS positioning are more difficult to do.
I plan to do a few more features like automatic data feeds, database population, code generation (Java/Ruby/SQL) etc. of the scraped data, but all depends on if there is enough interests, as I have a day job to go to, so can only do this in my spare time.
Anyway, the URL for the site is http://www.boxaweb.com/.
Thank you for your time.
David