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One of the coolest small Rails apps is Ozimodo
http://ozimodo.rubyforge.org/ , a Rails based tumblelog

Micro blogging and non-traditional forms of communication are helping to evolve how we’ll be communicating in the future. Its list of contributors is a veritable who’s who in the Rails community.

Here’s an enumeration of aspects that make Ozimodo great in the current context

impostor version 0.0.1 has been released!

• by Mike Mondragon
• http://impostor.rubyforge.org/

Makes automatic posts to the following forum applications:

• Web Wiz Forums (WWF) 7.9
• Web Wiz Forums (WWF) 8.0
• PHP Bullitin Board (phpBB) 2.0 (2.0.22)

SYNOPSIS:

# config yaml has options specefic to wwf79, wwf80, phpbb2, etc.
# read the impostor docs for options to the kind of forum in use
# config can be keyed by symbols or strings
config = YAML::load_file('conf/impostor.yml')
post = WWW::Impostor.new(config)
message = %q{hello world is to application
programmers as tea pots are to graphics programmers}
# your application stores forum and topic ids
post.post(forum=5,topic=10,message)
# make a new topic
subject = "about programmers..."
post.new_topic(forum=7,subject,message)
post.logout

Changes:

0.0.1 / 2008-02-02

• 1 major enhancement
  • Birthday!

by Mike Mondragon
http://impostor.rubyforge.org/

Dave Myron of Contentfree wrote a great Gem that he’s
named Blackbook. The Gem is hosted in the
Contentfree collection on Ruby
Forge. Blackbook imports
contacts from a number of sources and currently supports AOL Mail, GMail, Hotmail,
Yahoo! Mail, and contacts from CSV file. Blackbook exports the contacts that have
been collected as XML and VCard formatted text or as an Array of Hashes
with :name and :email keys.