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About Us

What?

Ruby Inside is the most popular news destination for Ruby and Rails developers. It covers Ruby and its associated technologies (including Ruby on Rails, Merb, IronRuby, JRuby, Rubinius, and so forth) and the Ruby community generally. It features posts about the Ruby language, tips and tricks, lists of resources and references, and automatically updated links to news from elsewhere too.

Who?

Peter Cooper - Editor
Peter Cooper is a British developer and author of "Beginning Ruby" by Apress. He owns and edits the SuperDaring! portfolio of blogs.

Mike Gunderloy - Contributor
Mike is an independent developer, author, and consultant with a significant writing background, having started a key underground publication, Factsheet Five, in 1982. As well as writing for Ruby Inside and Rails Inside, Mike also writes for Om Malik's Web Worker Daily and maintains his own blog.

Zach Inglis - Contributor
Zach is a British developer who's a co-founder of London Made, a UK-based Web application development, training, and recruitment company. He previously worked for Hashrocket. He has worked on a variety of open-source projects and continues to contribute heavily. He blogs at http://www.zachinglis.com/

Eldon Alameda - Contributor
Eldon is a web developer who just left a contract position with the National Weather Service to work at a startup company in Kansas City that's building a solution for digital coupons. He wrote a Rails book for Apress last year and for some silly reason turned right around and agreed to write a second one this year for Friends of Ed that will be completed shortly. He blogs at http://geekward.com/

Shalev NessAiver - Contributor
A jack-of-all-trades techie based in Baltimore, MD. He currently uses a mixture of Ruby and (Objective-)C in doing freelance web work and image processing for SimplyPhysics (an MRI imaging company.) He's planning on launching his own Ruby-based startup later this year.

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History

Ruby Inside was launched on May 29, 2006 and now (as of November 2008) has approximately 17,000 regular subscribers and around 900 posts with 11,000 feed exposures per day. In essence, Ruby Inside is a human-edited "magazine" of interesting Ruby news, tricks, and tips.

The name 'Ruby Inside' was inspired by a comment in an interview by Geoffrey Grosenbach, the host of the Ruby on Rails Podcast.

Search and Syndication

Ruby Inside has a significant status in terms of search results on Google. Ruby Inside is (as of April 2008) #1 for terms like "ruby blog", "ruby news", "ruby search", "rails find", "merb links", "merb tutorials", "ruby advent calendar", "rails tricks", "ruby tricks", and "ruby cheat sheets" and in the top 10 for thousands of others, including "ruby 1.9", "windows ruby", "ruby applescript", "ruby os x", "mod_ruby", "ruby tips", "ruby iis", and "ruby jobs" (in the past week, over 8000 different search terms were by visitors to Ruby Inside!)

Many Ruby Inside posts are now translated and syndicated on the official Indonesian-language Ruby homepage, and Ruby Inside is featured on popular aggregator sites including: Planet Ruby on Rails, Alltop, and RubyCorner.