But I thought Pluto is not a planet (any more). Did that change?
Good point. Wikipedia - the authority of all knowledge - says:
Pluto is the largest and second-most-massive known dwarf planet in the
Solar System and the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object
directly orbiting the Sun. It is the largest known trans-Neptunian
object by volume but is less massive than Eris, a dwarf planet in the
scattered disc. Like other Kuiper belt objects, Pluto is primarily
made of ice and rock and is relatively small—about one-sixth the mass
of the Moon and one-third its volume.
So I'd say it's still ok to say pluto is a planet - maybe not a big
"official" planet but a small dwarf planet
Heh. Apologies to you, Gerald, that I wrote Uranus rather than utilising
Pluto, but I had the feeling that the task of collecting some feeds can
be achieved with just Ruby's stdlib. Thus, it has no dependencies other
than Ruby itself, which should make it pretty portable. Pluto has
probably more features than Uranus, but I think Uranus is easier to
manage.
Greetings
Marvin
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On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 05:42:05PM +0100, Gerald Bauer wrote:
Heh. Apologies to you, Gerald, that I wrote Uranus rather than utilising
Pluto, but I had the feeling that the task of collecting some feeds can
be achieved with just Ruby's stdlib. Thus, it has no dependencies other
than Ruby itself, which should make it pretty portable. Pluto has
probably more features than Uranus, but I think Uranus is easier to
manage.
No need to apologize. I didn't use Planet Planet (in Python) or the
Planet Mars (in Ruby) either I wanted everything stored in a
single-file SQLite database (zero-config) and prefer ERB (embedded
Ruby) for templates (instead of XSL/T and friends).
Great idea just using a script for Uranus with no dependencies.
Easy to setup and change. Keep it up. And thanks for putting together
the Ruby Blogs (Deutsch) Planet [1].
