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What?

Ruby Inside is the most popular Ruby and Rails related blog attracting approximately 21,000 feed subscribers and 100,000 site visitors per month. Our beat is Ruby, its community, and associated technologies (such as Rails, Merb, IronRuby, JRuby, MacRuby and Rubinius). We post about the Ruby language, tips and tricks, lists of resources and references, and present topical links to other Ruby content.

Ruby Inside also has a Brazilian franchise called Ruby Inside Brasil - written in the Brazilian Portuguese language. It features much of Ruby Inside's content but also regional specific items. Spanish and Italian franchises are in the pipeline.

Who?

Peter Cooper - Editor in Chief / Community Manager
Peter Cooper is a British developer and author of "Beginning Ruby" published by Apress.

Ric Roberts - Lead Writer
Ric is a Manchester-based British software developer. He co-founded, built, and runs Swirrl, an online service for collaboration and managing data. Ric also works with interactive agency, Stardotstar as a Ruby on Rails developer on projects for public and private sectors.

Alumni and previous writers

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.

Supporting Us Generally

If you wish to support Ruby Inside (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. Alternatively, give us a link!

History

Ruby Inside was launched on May 29, 2006 and now (as of September 2009) has approximately 20,000 regular subscribers and around 1000 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.

Feed Subscriber Numbers Since Launch (from FeedBurner)

From May 2006 to April 2008 (current numbers - August 2008 - are approx 15,500 at weekends, 16,500 on weekdays).

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

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