Peter Cooper

Yo Rails! - A New Way To Find Resources In A Single Topic Area

I haven’t actively released it yet, but Yo Rails! (yorails.com) is a new site I’ve been working on. It’s a compendium of links to useful Rails related content. Unlike many “101 links about x” type sites, however, you aren’t slammed with a giant list of links in one go, but instead you need to work your way down to what you need by selecting a combination of tags.

I think this is a compelling way to narrow down a large, disparate list of items. I’m not convinced the interface is quite right yet, but it’s already demonstrating its power to me. I developed Yo Rails! because I see a lot of great Rails articles, then lose them in the pile (even tagging them on del.icio.us is no guarantee I can find them easily again, since del.icio.us stopped doing tag unions!)

I’d certainly appreciate if any of you could give it a go and let me know what you think. The general mechanism is all there and works great, although the number of items in the index is still low (about 100). I’m open to all feedback / criticism / praise on this, so fire away.

Love the new site but sure what is meant by “toggle tags”.

Toggle, as in “turn on and off.” You can turn on and off (multiple) tags to hone down results.