Free Demonoid Invitation Code

Just for fun, I've been having a look at Google Trends for "demonoid invitation code". Demonoid is one of the web's most popular private BitTorrent trackers and forums. Legal threats from the legal threats from the Canadian Recording Industry Association drove it to close on November 9th, 2007, only to be reopened some 6 months later in the hands of a new administrator. The closure is clearly visible in google's trend:


Alexa is another good site for monitoring internet trends. Here's Alexa's graph comparing Demonoid with two extremely popular public trackers, The Pirate Bay and IsoHunt:

Despite all the research, I was still unable to find a legitimate invitation code for Demonoid, although there seem to be plenty of scams out there. This post is a bit of "search bait" to see how many hits it generates compared to my (ir)regular posts. Sorry to disappoint any invitation code hunters.

Ruby on Rails Debugging Tools

Scott Raymond's "Ajax on Rails" book contains a chapter on debugging and testing Rails applications. Unfortunately, a lot of this content is not applicable to Rails 2, as script/breakpointer has been removed from the framework and replaced by ruby-debug.

Fear not. Railscasts has an excellent screencast on ruby-debug, covering installation and basic usage of the tool. Data Noise explains some more advanced uses, such as remote debugging, here.

Another tool described in Ajax on Rails is Rick Olson's Routing Navigator plugin, which was also doesn't seem to work with Rails 2.