What?

Ruby Inside is a weblog dedicated to Ruby, its associated technologies (including Ruby on Rails, Merb, IronRuby, JRuby, Rubinius and so on) and the Ruby community generally. It features posts about the Ruby language, tips and tricks, lists of resources and references, and automatically updated sidebar news from the universe of Ruby blogs.

Ruby Inside was launched on May 29, 2006 and now (as of April 2008) has approximately 15,000 regular subscribers and almost 800 posts. In essence, Ruby Inside is a human-edited “magazine” of interesting Ruby news, tricks, and tips.

Ruby Inside has a significant status in terms of search results on Google. Ruby Inside is currently (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 paypal”, “ruby tips”, “rails wiki”, “ruby iis”, and “ruby jobs”  (in the past week, over 5000 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.

Who and Why?

Ruby Inside is currently maintained by Peter Cooper, a British developer and author of “Beginning Ruby” by Apress. This blog is ultimately a resource for the community. The name ‘Ruby Inside’ was inspired by a comment in an interview by Geoffrey Grosenbach, the host of the Ruby on Rails Podcast.

Contact RubyInside.com

At present, the best way to get in touch is to e-mail rubyinside *PUT AN AT SIGN HERE* peterc.org. Please be advised that due to the level of e-mails I receive relating to Ruby Inside, you may be placed into a queue and receive a reply within the following week. I do read ALL mails straight away and respond to anything urgent, timely or important as soon as I can. Please stress if you need a quick response.

If you want to give me a lead for a site to be posted on Ruby Inside, consider posting it to Ruby Inside’s sister site RubyFlow.com. You can post there directly yourself, and I use RubyFlow as a key source of leads for things to post on Ruby Inside!

Advertising / Sponsorship

Ruby Inside accepts advertising enquiries, although we like to handle advertising delicately to maintain a high standard. Contact Peter Cooper at the e-mail address above to discuss.

Sidebar sponsorship opportunities are available at between $100 - $150 per month, dependent on availability and committment. If you wish to support Ruby Inside in a more indirect way (as a way of saying “thanks”), please buy a copy of Beginning Ruby for yourself or to give to someone else who might like to learn how to program. Or, even better, leave a review on Amazon.com of the book.

Feed Subscriber Numbers Since Launch (from FeedBurner)

From May 2006 to April 2008 (current numbers are approx 14,500 at weekends, 15,500 on weekdays).

RubyInside.com Site Statistics (Jan 28, 2008 - April 11, 2008)

RubyInside.com Site Statistics (April 2007 - January 2008)