Terror the micro aggregator

March 17th, 2009 by Andrea Franz

Terror is a micro feed aggregator made with sinatra and bundled as a gem. It’s very simple to use, just install the gem:

gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
sudo gem install pilu-terror

Create a new project

terror new_aggregator_name
cd new_aggregator_name 

Start the server

thin start -C config/thin.yml

Run the feeds fetcher

rake feeds:fetch # run it as a cron job

You can browse the source and fork it on github.


Radiant Gallery on Dreamhost with Ruby 1.8.7

January 15th, 2009 by Andrea Franz

Some people in the past had problems using the Gallery extension on Dreamhost. I didn’t try Dreamhost but someone from the Radiant list solved that problem following these instructions. Check it out if you are on Dreamhost too.