Sloth search for Ruby Weekly – a 100 minute hack turned 20h open sauce project

Sloth Finder helps you encounter the most amazing weekly Ruby articles around your favorite Ruby and Rails topics for the past decade sourced from [Ruby Weekly](https://rubyweekly.com/). This tool was made because the creator, a Sloth in human form, was interested in all the greatest articles around his favorite weird Ruby niche, so he built a primitive search and looked for: ```.

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``` What followed was a wealth of articles full of knowledge, understanding of his niche, and potential for connecting to potential leads and partners. Instead of calling it a day, he decided to share the tool with us, the people (which basically means his 100 minute hack turned into a 20 hour project if you include all the side quests and write-ups related to it). https://slothfinder.apishop.io/ He has also open-sourced it on GitHub. Here are some reasons for you to look at the code: - You want to see how to deploy a Rails project on the cheapest [render.com](http://render.com) non-free plan running on SQLite (making it cheaper than usual). After I already embarked on render.com, I found that [someone else documented how they experimented with something similar and ran Python on SQLite on fly.io for basically free](<a href="https://github.com/irskep/cheapo_website">https://github.com/irskep/cheapo_website</a>), so this might be another solution if you are interested in hosting your hobby projects.

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