# New Rails site: Smatchy.com

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-rails-site-smatchy-com/76388>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 18, 2006, 3:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-rails-site-smatchy-com/76388 "2006-11-18T03:54:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Adam\_Hegedus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a6a055/32.png) [@Adam\_Hegedus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Adam_Hegedus)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 3:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-rails-site-smatchy-com/76388/1 "2006-11-18T03:54:03Z")

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A newly released site developed entirely in Rails, known as Smatchy  
([www.smatchy.com](http://www.smatchy.com)), presents an interesting  
take on recommendations and could become the standard rather than the  
exception. The recommendations were more useful than typical sites,  
especially the ‘Unique Recs.’

More info here…  
[http://www.adamhegedus.com/2006/11/16/everyone-knows-the-letdown-of-a-bad-recommendation](http://www.adamhegedus.com/2006/11/16/everyone-knows-the-letdown-of-a-bad-recommendation)…

Digg it!  
[http://digg.com/tech\_news/Website\_figures\_out\_who\_is\_like\_you\_and\_who\_is\_not](http://digg.com/tech_news/Website_figures_out_who_is_like_you_and_who_is_not)

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**Author:** ![Adam\_Hegedus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a6a055/32.png) [@Adam\_Hegedus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Adam_Hegedus)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 4:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-rails-site-smatchy-com/76388/2 "2006-11-18T04:02:04Z")

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Thanx Adam.

After answering 10 or so questions,

Application error  
Rails application failed to start properly"

10pm EST - check the log.

J

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**Author:** ![Adam\_Hegedus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a6a055/32.png) [@Adam\_Hegedus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Adam_Hegedus)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 4:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-rails-site-smatchy-com/76388/3 "2006-11-18T04:52:07Z")

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Thanks for the feedback Jodi, I’ll look into it!

A

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**Author:** ![Adam\_Hegedus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a6a055/32.png) [@Adam\_Hegedus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Adam_Hegedus)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-rails-site-smatchy-com/76388/4 "2006-11-19T17:40:55Z")

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I get a lot of seemingly random “Rails application has failed to  
start” errors… often a reload will go through fine.