Sloth Finder helps you encounter the most amazing weekly Ruby articles around your favorite Ruby and Rails topics for the past decade sourced from [Ruby Weekly](https://rubyweekly.com/). This tool was made because the creator, a Sloth in human form, was interested in all the greatest 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 with us, the people (which basically means his 100 minute hack turned into a 20 hour project if you include all the side quests and write-ups related to it).

https://slothfinder.apishop.io/

He has also open-sourced it on GitHub. Here are some reasons for you to look at the code:

- You want to see how to deploy a Rails project on the cheapest [render.com](http://render.com) non-free plan running on SQLite (making it cheaper than usual). After I already embarked on render.com, I found that [someone else documented how they experimented with something similar and ran Python on SQLite on fly.io for basically free](https://github.com/irskep/cheapo_website), so this might be another solution if you are interested in hosting your hobby projects. - You want a simple Ruby scraper template to scrape simply structured sites like xlcd.com/1, xkcd.com/2, etc. - You wanna see a logger that writes to STDOUT and logs (useful for local scraping if you want to watch progress but also write to logs for search purposes later). - You want to see a Turbo stream in action. - You want to see how a „first thing that came to mind search over a small ActiveRecord collection“ was implemented.

Ok writing first-person again. If you find the search useful, let me know if you would like something similar for the other publishings of cooperpress(https://cooperpress.com/publications/). They have top notch stuff on JavaScript, Postgres, and much more! I’ll also take suggestions for other scrapeable publishings that don’t have a search.

Enjoy