# My new Rails Site - eVokeTV

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 8, 2006, 12:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/my-new-rails-site-evoketv/102259 "2006-02-08T00:36:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![gr0k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/e19adc/32.png) [@gr0k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gr0k)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 12:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/my-new-rails-site-evoketv/102259/1 "2006-02-08T00:36:10Z")

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Someone else announced their new rails site earlier today and it just so  
happens I’m also excited to be launching my first one and wanted to help  
spread the word. Please forgive me, I don’t mean to spam. 🙂 It’s  
being  
“launched” tomorrow at the Demo 2006 conference. (see: [http://demo.com](http://demo.com))

eVokeTV - [http://evoketv.com](http://evoketv.com)

Basically it’s a TV Listings website with a few twists such as:

- Realtime ajax chat rooms that connect you to other people that are  
also  
watching the show you’re watching. (ie. if the show is also on right  
now in  
their schedule. Click on any show that is on right now then the TV Room  
button) Realtime show ratings to express how you feel about the show at  
any  
time which is then plotted on a line graph using the Gruff Graphing  
Library.
- Personalized lineups which you can subscribe to via RSS which gives  
you a  
daily list of shows that are on today. Click here to see mine:  
[http://evoketv.com/user/tony/lineup](http://evoketv.com/user/tony/lineup)

Here’s a more complete list of features and planned features:  
[http://www.evoketv.com/info/whyreg](http://www.evoketv.com/info/whyreg)

Any feedback is appreciated. Be gentle. 🙂 The layout and design  
still  
needs some work.

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**Author:** ![gr0k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/e19adc/32.png) [@gr0k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gr0k)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 1:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/my-new-rails-site-evoketv/102259/2 "2006-02-08T01:41:06Z")

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Cool idea! Thanks for posting it. A little feedback (after my 5 minutes  
perusing the site):

- I couldn’t figure out what ‘My Programs’ did for me. Can I add my  
favorite shows to it?
- UI as whole is very “engineer” looking - it could use a make over by  
a slick graphic artist. I’ll plug my own company here:  
[www.kinetictheoryinc.com](http://www.kinetictheoryinc.com). Give us a call 😉
- Most impressive feature: The TV show info that shows up in the right  
hand side. Informative, nice AJAX style loading, and cool.

Good luck with it!

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**Author:** ![gr0k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/e19adc/32.png) [@gr0k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gr0k)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 1:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/my-new-rails-site-evoketv/102259/3 "2006-02-08T01:59:21Z")

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On 2/7/06, m4dc4p [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> - I couldn’t figure out what ‘My Programs’ did for me. Can I add my  
> favorite shows to it?

Yeah that isn’t very clear, I added that paragraph to try to explain it.  
Basically as you click on shows, you’ll see star ratings in the yellow  
box.  
Give a show a star rating and it will show up under My Programs.

- UI as whole is very “engineer” looking - it could use a make over by

> a slick graphic artist. I’ll plug my own company here:  
> [www.kinetictheoryinc.com](http://www.kinetictheoryinc.com). Give us a call 😉

That would be because it was designed by an engineer, namely me. 🙂  
Like I  
said, the interface needs some love. Hopeing to get some interest going  
and  
some cash and the first thing I’m pushing for is to get a real graphic  
designer.

Good luck with it!

> 

Thanks!