Title: Inspirado
Date: May 22, 2007
Timestamp: 1179865380
Author: sjs
Tags: rails, inspirado
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<a href="http://spyderous.livejournal.com/">spyderous</a> is a Gentoo dev and I read his posts via the <a href="http://planet.gentoo.org/">Gentoo planet</a> (and again on the <a href="http://planet.freedesktop.org/">freedesktop.org planet</a>).

He recently mentioned <a href="http://spyderous.livejournal.com/88463.html">an idea</a> to foster participation in Gentoo (or any other project) by aggregating personal project plans for people to browse. I thought it sounded cool so I started coding and came up with what I call <a href="http://http://rubyforge.org/projects/inspirado/">inspirado</a>.

It&#8217;s fairly basic so far but it&#8217;s only a week old. It is RESTful and you can get <span class="caps">XML</span> for most pages by appending .xml to the <span class="caps">URL</span> (or by using curl and setting the <span class="caps">HTTP</span> Accept header). Eventually Atom and/or <span class="caps">RSS</span> should be available as well.

Note that everything you see there is purely for testing purposes and any changes you make are most likely going to be blown away.

There are several features on my <span class="caps">TODO</span> list but I&#8217;d love to hear about any you might have. Write to sami.samhuri@gmail.com if you have suggestions or anything else to say.

(Inspirado is, of course, a Rails app.)
