Development
United Elements of Hate is written in using the Ruby language and a lot of help from the Rails framework. All this code is kept safe by Subversion, an excellent piece of revision control software. To store all the events, messages and other data UEH uses a MySQL database.
The actual bandwith and diskspace that make it possible for you to visit this site is provided by the folks at Dreamhost. Probably one of the most affordable Rails shared host around. They have set up a Linux + Apache webserver decked out with Phusion Passenger allowing this Ruby on Rails application to run fast and smoothly.
As you’ve just read, UEH is completly based and running on free, open source, software so, in the spirit of the open source community, I like to give back by releasing some of my own.
AddThis.com helper plugin for Ruby on Rails
Addthis.com provides widgets that make sharing, bookmarking and emailing pages,
and subscribing to feeds easy for your visitors.
Addthis is a helper plugin that makes it easy to add these widgets
to your Rails application.
Urobot, is this user-agent a browser or bot?
Urobot tries to answer to the question if a user-agent string belongs to a
(human) browser or a bot. It does so by examinining a user-agent string to
see if it looks like a legitimate browser's. If this is not the
case Urobot assumes the user-agent string to be that of a bot.
