Today is Whyday! One year ago today, the man behind _why suddenly completely removed the persona and all of his works from the net.

Savorous, as well as killthe.net, is built on the Sinatra framework and served via Apache and the Passenger extension, with Rack somewhere in the middle.

In trying to expand and solidify my facility with Ruby and related things, as well as scratching my own itch, I’ve started a new project: Savorous.

Why Make It

The problem it’s meant to solve is filling in the missing data in feeds that only deliver bare links without the associated summary or meta-data. It’s made specifically with Delicious feeds in mind, but it could be any feed that is basically just a list of links.

Really rough, but easy to drop in and get working with something else, either as an external script or by integrating directly into a larger code base.

The code:

PHP: Gist 214887

Last week I spent a few minutes over lunch cleaning up the code behind killthe.net and posting the results to GitHub.

So it’s been awhile since I checked in with any HYDRAtweet news. Things are still going on in the background:

After installing phusion and starting Apache, I received this error trying to access a Rails app under a vhost configuration:

Ruby on Rails framework version 2.2.2 seems to be corrupted. Please reinstall it.