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Hello!

I would like to know how do you feel about making the website responsive to different browser widths.

Currently, this is how the Rails Core page looks when a Safari window is stretched, and on an iPhone:

I've spent a couple of hours to change the HTML/CSS code so that the page would look exactly the same at a normal browser resolution, but would adapt nicely to a smaller resolution:

Before I create a full pull request, which would make all the pages responsive, I would like to know if you have anything against this change. My concern is not about the actual HTML/CSS code (we can discuss about that), but more if you think that this would be a good overall change.

I invite you to try the final result by yourself by pointing your browser to:

• responsive "Core" page: http://claudiob.github.io/rails.github.com/core
• responsive "Core Alumni" page: http://claudiob.github.io/rails.github.com/core/alumni

and comparing them with the current ones. Thanks 🎀

http://rubyonrails.org/documentation contains an extraneous anchor tag:

As we can see in the markup:

<div class="main">
<a> </a>
<p>
  <a>When you're just getting started or want to learn about Rails in general, the </a>
  <a href="http://guides.rubyonrails.org/">Rails Guides</a> 
  is a great way to compliment the API section as well. It's being maintained as part of 
  <a href="http://github.com/lifo/docrails/tree/master">the docrails project</a>.
</p>
</div>

There are also a number of empty anchor tags on the page but at least those do not result in styled text appearing as if it is a clickable link.

Looking at this repository I thought this would be generated by https://github.com/rails/rails.github.com/blob/master/documentation/index.html but the markup there is significantly different that what I see on the live site.

Is this even the correct repository for issues with http://rubyonrails.org/ site content?

Even though it was released 13 days ago :)

The rubyonrails.org homepage looks a little dated. It was last updated nearly 10 years ago, for the release of Rails 1.0.

It'd be nice to refresh the design for the Rails 5.0 release.

Maybe a company that relies Rails can donate time to make a new design? I'd be happy to help out, though I'm not a designer. (If someone provides a design, I'd be happy to implement in HTML and Sass with Middleman.)

Thoughts?

It's a bother to manually update this repo to link to the latest 'Release' blog post.

Two options I see:

• Populating this text via JS, by reading from and parsing http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/feed/atom.xml
• Merging rails/rails.github.com and rails/weblog into one repo. Then we could just pull it the latest blog post programmatically. They both use jekyll, so it wouldn't be too hard.

I'm open to helping with either.

Not sure if this is already known but http://contributors.rubyonrails.org/ seems to be returning a 500 error

I ran across the core team page the other day and noticed the phrase "made men" in the header. Although the list does seem to be all men right now it seems a bit (accidentally, I'm sure) presumptuous to use the phrase. I wonder if there is another phrase that has similar connotations of loyalty and hard work that doesn't specify gender?

I don't have a specific suggestion for what that phrase should be (beyond searching the thesaurus for "hard-working") but I'm hoping that it can be narrowed down here and am willing to help.

I'll also note that the header containing the phrase is a raster image and the source file doesn't appear to be in this repo.

I hope that this can kick off a good conversation. 😄

The following subdomains are pointed by the guides but are not responding:

• http://media.rubyonrails.org
• http://manuals.rubyonrails.org

Do they still exist? Are they supposed to work? Should the links be removed instead?