I'm pretty new to Rails, so still trying to find my way around. I've been trying to access manuals.rubyonrails.com for several days now but am getting a 503 error.
Could anyone enlighten me as to where on looks for "service outage" or other status messages for rubyonrails.com and subdomains? I can't find anything that would show that whoever administers the manuals knows it is down, or is doing anything about it.
Thanks gt_sdi
it’s a continual problem. try http://www.railsmanual.org
ed
Thanks for the reply....I wish railsmanual.org helped...it's great for api docs....but was looking for something more "tutorial" in nature...in particular the manual on testing file uploadsl, as I'm trying to figure out how to unit test a file upload.
gt_sdi
Like you, I haven't been able to find anyone who can help with this so I've raised a ticket (#7601: How can we make manuals.rubyonrails.com available reliably?). Hopefully that will get the attention of someone in the core team.
Keith
I have a Mephisto instance set up. Let me know if you'd like to help port the content over from manuals site. I'm trying to consolidate the various apps that we have to babysit. I'm currently working on the Rails homepage.
Rick,
> Like you, I haven't been able to find anyone who can help with this so > I've raised a ticket (#7601: How can we makemanuals.rubyonrails.com > available reliably?). Hopefully that will get the attention of > someone in the core team.
I have a Mephisto instance set up. Let me know if you'd like to help port the content over frommanualssite. I'm trying to consolidate the various apps that we have to babysit. I'm currently working on the Rails homepage.
Firstly, is that why the manuals site is down? I don't see why it has to be down to enable content to be ported across.
If the core Rails team have decided to use Mephisto, what's involved in helping to port the content? Also, is Jamis Buck aware that the consolidation to Mephisto includes the manuals? I notice he and others have had some recent (inconclusive) discussion about the best way to maintain the Capistrano documentation.
Sorry to bombard you with these questions. I'd like a better understanding of what the direction is and what's involved before I commit to taking on a task.
Regards, Keith
Firstly, is that why the manuals site is down? I don't see why it has to be down to enable content to be ported across.
It's not a particularly stable app. The server is pretty old and has a lot of stuff running on it too. There are plans to move it to a container like the recent trac/svn move, but it's not near as urgent a need right now.
If the core Rails team have decided to use Mephisto, what's involved in helping to port the content? Also, is Jamis Buck aware that the consolidation to Mephisto includes the manuals? I notice he and others have had some recent (inconclusive) discussion about the best way to maintain the Capistrano documentation.
Yup, he's aware. I don't think his plans include the manuals site. I spoke with one of the new authors involved with the Caboose documentation project, and he mentioned wanting a place to put updated rails docs. So, we may see a re-org real soon anyway.
So, what's involved in "porting"? Re-writing code? Copying content?
b
Rick Olson wrote: > > I have a Mephisto instance set up. Let me know if you'd like to help > port the content over from manuals site. I'm trying to consolidate > the various apps that we have to babysit. I'm currently working on > the Rails homepage. >
Rick Olson wrote:
Hi Rick
As per Ben's question...can you give us an idea of what you need done. I would welcome an opportunity to contribute to the Rails community, but should make sure I can follow through on any commitments I make. Also a little confused (actually that's mostly a permanent state) as to whether you saw this as potentially overlapping caboose.
Thanks GT
The caboose documentation project will be contributing back to Rails directly. So, if they (or anyone really), wanted to add some good rails manuals, manuals.ror.org is the place for it. As for what's involved with porting, just moving content over. I'm moving it to Mephisto, so you'll have the full power of that at your disposal. Right now, I'm thinking of dumping the current set of articles into a really simplified layout that matches the current ror design. If someone has any ideas, bring them up.
FYI:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060526132936/http://manuals.rubyonrails.org/
has some of the original content.
Keith
I've been bringing it back, but it keeps crashing, hence the move to Mephisto. If anyone knows Mephisto pretty well and has some time this weekend, let me know. Otherwise, I'll just do a quick migration so we don't have these issues next week.