Back when I first started with Rails, I noticed there were a lot of times I just needed to know the Ruby/Rails equivalent of some PHP function. It started me thinking that it would be great to have a resource similar to PHP.net where you could just append the function name to the end of a url, and get some relevant Ruby/Rails examples. Well, somebody beat me to it.

The folks over at Rails for PHP Developers have a pretty good start on content, especially for Array, String and Filesystem functions. The feature I was planning on, which I am not seeing their site, is a way for the community to contribute. Even if it were heavily moderated, I think it would be a boon for the site to flesh out its reference much more quickly.

…is silence.

I had the best of intentions. I wanted to give you words. Words to make you laugh. Words to make you cry. Words to excite, enlighten and inspire.

So what happened?

Code. Code happened. I’m up to my eyeballs in freelance work. Many of you know first hand how busy things can get when you work full-time, and also take side jobs. There may be relief soon. My previous employer is finally beefing up his stable of monkey’s. These monkey’s will soon take over the work I’ve been handling since I left the outfit last July. This will hopefully free up some evening time so I can finally write some decent articles. I’m making a list, checking it twice, and will begin authoring soon.

Stay tuned. I plan on doing some small articles soon, as well as a book review.

Maybe.