Rubyonrails.org – Snatched by a squatter

We don’t normally post about the software that powers our non-blog site (Ruby On Rails – we like it a lot), but I just clicked through for some documentation and lo-and-behold, RubyOnRails.org is now squaterville.

According to domaintools.com, it has been snatched up by a company called Next Angle. It looks like the domain was originally purchased for 4 years on 19-Apr-2004. I’ve seen that same splash page on a lot of typo names.

Until this is worked out (until the squatter is paid extortion money), no installing gems from rubyonrails.org, no documentation from rubyonrails.org, and no love from all the dhh / rails haters in the world.

Update: Apparently it was a hosting problem (that host sure has a spammy default page). From where I sit it’s back online as of today.