Beta Invites for Ruby Meetup

Here's a beta ticket good for the first 60 users - for the April Silicon Valley Ruby Meetup.

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We'd love to hear your feedback.

Announcing use_uuid and acts_as_distributed

Today we open sourced two Rails plugins that facilitate building distributed Rails applications. Use_uuid integrates UUIDs and schema less attributes into rails models. Acts_as_distributed replicates state changes to model objects to a queue so they can be distributed to other databases and applications. Both of these plugins are currently in production in newsforwhatyoudo, and are tested with Rails 2.2

Rails is a great framework, but its not simple building a distributed application. These are two small steps towards making it easier. I'll be talking at the Silicon Valley Ruby Meetup about how we use these plugins. It would be great to collaborate with other developers on building out a collection of plugins that enabled all the key portions of distributing applications in an integrated way.

Private Beta Starts Today!

Private Beta starts today! Since the site's value is proportional to the number of users in a group, initially we're focused on getting a critical mass of users in a small number of groups. We're targeting real estate, ruby developers, and attorneys as a good mix of early and late adopters. First order of business is getting any usability and other bugs identified before opening up the site to more users.

We're also working on a comments controller that will allow users to comment on articles. If you have other feature suggestions let us know!