Sloth Finder - Ruby Weekly edition

Sloth Finder helps you encounter the most amazing Ruby articles around your favorite Ruby and Rails topics for the past decade. This tool was made because the creator, a Sloth in human form, was interested in all the best articles around his favorite weird Ruby niche, so he built a primitive search and looked for:


api, openapi, automation, rest, graphql, rpc, soap, webhook, scrap, event-driven, serializ

What followed was a wealth of articles full of knowledge, understanding of his niche, and potential for connecting to potential leads and partners. Instead of calling it a day, he decided to share the tool and some extra knowledge around it with the community.

But I have no niche.

If you are a "regular" Ruby or Ruby dev who doesn't care about anything else than vanilla, there must be things that still interest you. Here's some inspiration:


  ruby 4
  rails 8
  sinatra
  hotwire
  phlex
  enumerable
  rbs
  easter egg
  ractors
  postgres
  sqlite
  deploy
  kamal
  danger on rails
  sidekiq
  solid queue
  beer
  ...

What makes it Sloth?

Minimal effort development for max benefit.
It's the laziest search ever invented: We are looking for case insensitive words with open ends; e.g. "api" will match "API", "APIs", "apimatic". It goes back to issue 201 in 2014. Let me know if you want the earlier ones and we'll ask Peter Cooper if we can scrape some of the old XML archives.
It's slow: Loading times have been spotted to be around 1-2 seconds on local and more in prod. Chill is king; good things take time.
Written with the laziest tech stack ever imagined, the one-sloth-framework: Rails on SQlite deployed on Render ($7.25 server costs, consider buying a banana for Sloth if you got any value from the tool). We'll move this to Rails 8 and Kamal 2 on a proper server once the future is here.
Frontend "design" outsourced to Claude Opus.
Obviously, no one wrote tests for this simple MVP (the Sloth promised adding some, if we go past MVP and add more features).

🦥 You seem heated. I'm cool. Like 30-34 degrees Celsius cool.