Rails and a gnome rss aggregator: straw

I really like the straw RSS aggregator, <http://www.gnome.org/projects/
straw/>, and would like to build a RoR application on top of straw.
Of course, this would be much easier if straw were to follow RoR
schema conventions.

Aside from pointing the straw folks to <http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/
rails/pages/TipSheetForBeginners> or other guides, how can I help them
ensure that the schema is followed 100%? (I don’t really have the
skills to contribute to their project, I’m reading Why’s Poignant
Guide to Ruby at the moment.)

thanks,

Thufir