Route53 Updated

I've just updated the route53 gem to support Amazon's latest additions including weighted resource record sets as well as zone apex support allowing assignment of ELB instances to roots of domains. It's like allowing a CNAME of the naked domain to an ELB instance which was previously unavailable to folks using EC2.

This is probably the most successful tool I've put together to date. With 75 watchers and 10 forks on github as well as over 2000 downloads and counting from rubygems. I look forwarding to continue improving the project and keeping up with the new features as Amazon releases them.

https://github.com/pcorliss/ruby_route_53

Quick Update

It's been a while since I last posted. I decided talking about a job search while it was in progress was probably a bad move. After I finally got hired I found it more and more difficult to come home at night after a long commute and spend time working on my own projects. But after a recent move which significantly reduces my commute I'm ready to jump back in.

For those interested I started working as a Software Developer at Groupon in late January and I've been doing well. I turned down some great offers and interviews but in the end Groupon seemed to offer the biggest challenge. And in the lawyers made me say it category, while I do work for Groupon my opinions are my own as well as the code that I develop outside of the office.

Expect a new post about some upgrades to the route 53 gem to support some newly released features. As well as an rspec patch I put together to support running multiple specs via line ranges.