Playing around with Ruby and Digg
“The Google Cache” blog is on my RSS list and an interesting post about Digg SEO came up recently.
It details a way to make yourself known to other diggers that happen to be powerusers, thus opening the door to get your stories dug. It seemed pretty easy to code up and I’ve been playing with ruby lately so I thought it’d be fun to solve the first half of the tedium; finding the top diggers.
This code is my very quick reply. It uses John Wulff’s digg-ruby library:
Finding this library was the best part of this little exercise. It includes some incredible meta-programming.
You can either look at my small, undocumented Digg class or clone it:
git://github.com/rbriski/top-digger-tool.git