In case anyone is interested, this is a really bare Rails app which basically just delegates to two open source Ruby gems I wrote and does some caching to try a

In case anyone is interested, this is a really bare Rails app which basically just delegates to two open source Ruby gems I wrote and does some caching to try and improve result fetching speed and cut down on api requests. One gem is a wrapper for the Big Huge Labs Thesaurus API: https://github.com/dtuite/dinosaurus https://github.com/dtuite/dinosaurus The other is a wrapper for the Ruby Whois gem. It adds Twitter and Facebook availability checking functions: https://github.com/dtuite/name_checker https://github.com/dtuite/name_checker