From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2005-08-05T13:32:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on CodeZoo

Phil Tomson wrote:
> Haven't seen this mentioned here, but O'Reilly's CodeZoo has added a Ruby 
> code section. http://ruby.codezoo.com
> 
> Seems like a good thing, but what does this mean for RubyForge?  Will we 
> need to release gems to both RubyForge and CodeZoo now?  Could there be 
> some way of sync'ing the two?

It appears that they are spidering sites like RubyForge for info about 
Ruby projects. Beyond that I don't know how they are operating.

I did a quick test by downloading FreeRIDE from their site, and it seems 
like they are serving it themselves (I couldn't detect any forward of 
the request to RubyForge).

This is a very good thing because we needed a place where we could rate 
and comment on Ruby packages.

Does anyone know they mechanics behind CodeZoo -- how is it acquiring 
its information and keeping it up to date?

Curt