RubyRescue

The Phusion Passenger guys (Hongli and Ninh) are speaking right now at Rails Summit Latin America. They just unveiled their ‘surprise announcement’ – a messaging platform that looks like the love child of IRC, Twitter, and Campfire called yummi.us. It’s in private Beta right now, but you can contact Ninh at ninh @ phusion.nl if you want an invite.

• You can have public and private channels
• It’s integrated with twitter so updates to yummius will show up on your Twitter feed
• It has syntax highlighting for most languages so pasted in code will be readable. Support for most of the languages TextMate supports
• You can attach files – you will have a large amount of storage space but they have not decided how much yet
• The focus seems to be for developers as there’s a Rails plugin for embedding a channel in your own site, and the ability to lock down the channels means you can use it like Campfire as a collaboration tool.