Racing on Rails

I have the first set of the calendar (iCal) feeds ready. If you click over to any "Events by States" page (say for British Columbia), you will be greeted with two new icons:

The first one is for the before-mentioned RSS feeds (see last post). The second one is for a iCal feed. iCal Feeds allow you to subscribe to the events on the page in your favorite calendaring program and they will refresh your calendar whenever new events are added to the website (for that state). I have currently added an icon for Apple's iCal program (since I rock a MacBook), but I will be adding Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook as soon as I get them tested.

I've used the California feed in my own calendar (so I can sync them to my iPhone) for several months, so I think they are pretty bug free. Look for more RSS, Atom and iCal feed goodness to drop later this week.

My iCal support is enabled by the iCalendar ruby gem, written by Jeff Rose.

Welcome to Racing on Rails, my blog about the website mtbcalendar.com, mountain bike racing and Ruby on Rails (probably in that order).

My name is slashk and I'll be your host. I am a dedicated (albeit slow) MTB racer (mostly XC, some Super D and a bit of CX) who resides in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California, which is simply the greatest place to race mountain bikes on earth. Some of you may know me from my other blog, NorCal MTB Racing, which I have written for the past two or three years.

I have put up this blog due to the gentle shaming of an user's email:

mtbcalendar.com is cool, nice work
2 niggles: rss/atom feeds don't work. they send you to the very same page you're looking at. there is no contact info/form for me to send feedback to.
1 suggestion: start a blog, so we can keep up with updates!

(A) thank you Alex for the kind words. I wasn't sure how many people were using it as I haven't really launched it other than mentioning it on NorCal MTB Racing a few times.

(B) you are absolutely correct. The rss/atom feeds are completely b0rked (they were working but I changed some controller logic and I haven't gotten back to fix them yet) and the site is devoid of feedback mechanisms.

However, I have taken your suggestion about the blog (with the quickness). And I am working on bringing back the rss/atom feeds (probably sometime this week as I have some cross-country airtravel planned). And I actually have a bit more functionality built into the current version of the website than I have exposed. Goodies like iCal subscriptions, proximity searching and such are implemented (but untested) and very rough around the edges. I'll be polishing and hoisting them on you gentle blog readers shortly.

And in the meantime, you can either comment here on this blog or email me at norcalmtbracing AT gmail DOT com (replace the AT and DOT with the appropriate symbols).

And thanks for coming.

Welcome to Racing on Rails, my blog about the website mtbcalendar.com, mountain bike racing and Ruby on Rails (probably in that order).

My name is slashk and I'll be your host. I am a dedicated (albeit slow) MTB racer (mostly XC, some Super D and a bit of CX) who resides in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California, which is simply the greatest place to race mountain bikes on earth. Some of you may know me from my other blog, NorCal MTB Racing, which I have written for the past two or three years.

I have put up this blog due to the gentle shaming of an user's email:

mtbcalendar.com is cool, nice work
2 niggles: rss/atom feeds don't work. they send you to the very same page you're looking at. there is no contact info/form for me to send feedback to.
1 suggestion: start a blog, so we can keep up with updates!

(A) thank you Alex for the kind words. I wasn't sure how many people were using it as I haven't really launched it other than mentioning it on NorCal MTB Racing a few times.

(B) you are absolutely correct. The rss/atom feeds are completely b0rked (they were working but I changed some controller logic and I haven't gotten back to fix them yet) and the site is devoid of feedback mechanisms.

However, I have taken your suggestion about the blog (with the quickness). And I am working on bringing back the rss/atom feeds (probably sometime this week as I have some cross-country airtravel planned). And I actually have a bit more functionality built into the current version of the website than I have exposed. Goodies like iCal subscriptions, proximity searching and such are implemented (but untested) and very rough around the edges. I'll be polishing and hoisting them on you gentle blog readers shortly.

And in the meantime, you can either comment here on this blog or email me at norcalmtbracing AT gmail DOT com (replace the AT and DOT with the appropriate symbols).

And thanks for coming.