One thing that separates us at Hashrocket is the fact that we have a great team of Ruby experts. This is great if you get stuck, there is always at least one person who can help you on something. We also follow the great agile principle of pairing, which means that if someone is doing something you are interested in, then you can watch and learn with them.
Everyone is hesitant to get into Backpack for the purposes of updating their status and it is too private to talk about on Twitter so I thought I would come up with my own solution. Originally the Backpack feature came from their In/Out application, my good friend David Smalley came up with his own Merb solution too, but I wanted something Rails and thus Holler was born.
It has only taken me 4 hours so far but I would like to introduce Holler. There are a few big features that I am planning on: Fluid integration similar to Shout, Javascript where its needed, tags, twitter integration (direct messaging to the application), more ways to view statuses.
Please feel free to fork it and make your own changes! Get Holler.
