# Oafer42

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oafer42/77366>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 29, 2005, 3:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oafer42/77366 "2005-11-29T15:41:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![kvanderauwera](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@kvanderauwera](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kvanderauwera)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 3:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oafer42/77366/1 "2005-11-29T15:41:05Z")

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At second thought, I think it’s better to send it to Ruby-talk 😉

See message below.

---------- Forwarded message ----------  
From: Koen Van der Auwera [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
Date: Nov 29, 2005 1:27 PM  
Subject: Oafer42  
To: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid

Hi all,

I wrote a little blog-tool (called Oafer42) which already has proven  
to be very useful to me. It is used to publish posts using the  
metaweblogapi. It can send trackbacks and it automagically sends a  
ping to ping-o-matic. The last 20+ posts on my blog were published  
using Oafer42. So I think it’s ready to share it with the rest of the  
world. 🙂

Since I’m not a Ruby-Guru, yet 😉 I would like to know, what can be  
improved. Especially the exception handling, there is some work to be  
done there I guess.

Please keep in mind that I want to keep it simple. I don’t want no  
bloated WYSIWYG editor.

The code: [http://oafer42.atog.be](http://oafer42.atog.be)

btw I chose to send it to the typo-list because typo is the reason I  
wrote it.