Rebase

I’m using this little Rails app to create my weekly column, the GitHub Rebase! Don’t run this app on a server, that would be really dumb. Using the app is simple. I’ve abstracted most of the dirty work out to Rails tasks. Here’s how a normal workflow goes:

1. Find a good stopping point to stop ripping data. Something like: http://github.com/timeline.atom?page=1250
2. Download RSS files with rake rebase:rip stop=1250
3. Parse files with rake rebase:parse stop=1250
4. Fire up the server with script/server and check out your pretty graphs.

There’s a few other rake tasks available to help out too, do a rake -T | grep rebase to see them all. If you’ve got any questions about the app feel free to bug me.