# Rails Exchange - Stack Overflow for Ruby on Rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-exchange-stack-overflow-for-ruby-on-rails/178720>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 9, 2009, 11:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-exchange-stack-overflow-for-ruby-on-rails/178720 "2009-11-09T23:23:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![thejackal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/919ad9/32.png) [@thejackal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/thejackal)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 11:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-exchange-stack-overflow-for-ruby-on-rails/178720/1 "2009-11-09T23:23:42Z")

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Hey everyone,

My name is Kent F., I am developer over at Viewpointr based in  
Toronto, Canada.

I really like Stack Overflow and was excited when they launched Stack  
Exchange as I felt as though the Rails community could benefit from a  
focused QnA site with the voting and community wiki features of Stack  
Overflow.

Obviously there are many sites that have tried this, and I am not  
trying to say that those sites don’t add value, but I have never felt  
as though they manage to serve the community as well as they could.

So I have setup [http://rails.stackexchange.com](http://rails.stackexchange.com).

It’s not finished yet, but I figured I would let everyone know and see  
what the response is like. I really think that some questions on the  
mailing list could get filtered over to a site like this and could  
possibily add more value to the community. I don’t know if this will  
be the case, so consider Rails Exchange to be an experiment to see if  
this sort of thing could work.

I think one of the most compelling reasons for it would be to keep an  
updated list of best practices, plugins, gems etc similar to what the  
guides try and do. The difference here is that we can vote on them,  
edit them and then commit them to a community wiki. So when you need  
to figure out what the best Exception Plugin / Gem is, you can go on  
over to Rails Exchange and see what the community has voted to the top  
or if it’s popular enough, what the community has put in the Community  
Wiki. I think this will save newbies and experts a lot of time.

Anyway let me know or send me over feedback. Obviously the design /  
logo will change. I whipped it up in about 5 minutes so don’t judge  
it on that. You can reach me on twitter @kentf or just send me an  
email at kent at viewpointr dot com. I would be more than happy to  
make people admins or have some designers take a crack at making it  
look more beautiful.

All the best everyone,

Take care,

Kent

PS: Thank you to everyone who has ever contributed a single line of  
code or more to Rails, a plugin, gem or any open source software for  
that matter, I truly appreciate it.