Slashdot Mirror
RubyForge Open For Ruby Project Hosting
tcopeland writes "RubyForge is a new hosting area for open source Ruby projects. It's powered by the popular GForge fork of SourceForge development. There's even a couple of code snippets up there already."
It's been two hours that this story is up, yet only one single, trollish comment so far. I don't mean to criticize Ruby (I haven't even tried it) but it's clearly somewhat of an outcast (in the low-volume sense).
I remember going to warforge.com when i was younger. Does this have any relation to that site? (just out of curiosity)
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
It looks like the Perl6 folks are borrowing a lot of ideas from Ruby.
Looks like Perl6 will be great when it comes out in 2007 or so, but if you really don't care to wait that long give Ruby a try.
Somebody needs to write a Ruby Module (maybe a debugger?) named Jack_Ruby.
They might not get it in Japan, but it would be great in the US.
I think Ruby is awesome... unfortunately it has two "flaws":
:-)
1) Not "different enough" from Perl.. at least at first glance. But if you've ever done heavy rapid OO development in Perl, you'll appreciate how much more elegant Ruby is.
2) Not enough 3rd part modules, no easy equivalent of CPAN. I can write all kinds of cool stuff in Perl because of the awesome selection of modules.
I love Perl, it's one of my favorite languages (next to The One True Language C), but my co-workers can no longer understand my Perl code (and frankly, neither can I sometimes). I'd love to use good object-oriented design under a perl-like language... like Ruby!
(Yes I've used Python, the object model and scoping rules didn't quite jive with me, and I use regexps all the time so I like those to be first-class language constructs. The whitespace thing is probably the only really cool thing about python, imho. That, and it's Not Perl which is important to a lot of folks
So if you're a perl hacker and you'd like a breath of fresh air (before the TORNADO of perl6 comes by, anyway), give Ruby a try. Use it for your small scripts, you know, the ones you write in about 100 seconds in Perl to accomplish some simple task... try 'em in Ruby...
It would only need to be good enough to coexist. Is it worth learning instead of either of those? For example, I know a little Perl (and don't want to know much more), and no Python; should I look at Ruby instead? How do they compare?
Ceterum censeo subscriptionem esse delendam.
Ruby compares more to python than Perl. Perl and ruby really don't belong to be compared to each other. Python I have had some experience with, but it didn't impress me as much as Ruby did. The whitespacing along with some limitations that either I didn't understand or were not easily available in python led me to ruby.
Language wise, Ruby seems to me to be more correct than most other intrepreted languages I have used. The use of mixins to include the same basic functionality across classes was a godesend for a v4l2 application that I worked on.
It is as easy to implement C and C++ libraries in Ruby as it is in TCL. Tcl is very easy, Perl sucks (XS was too much for me when I knew something better existed), and python I have no experience in.
One of the more impressive projects in rubyland is the drb, distributed ruby project. A module that is built in a few hundred lines of code can be included in a few lines of code to create a truely distributed ruby application. This is more than simple message passing or SOAP.
Another place to go to is pinkjuice.com for some more info..
Ruby and Perl compare well to each other in the type of tasks you choose to do with both. They are scripting language. Not what you would want to write most apps in. I found TCL to be hard and Perl to be easy. It might just be I found better docs for Perl than I could for TCL. Like I said Ruby sounds good but there always seems to be limited "room" for programing languages. Look at Forth, Comal, Prolog, APL, Pilot, ,Logo ,and PL/1. They have all faded from popular use. I rember peoplet telling me that Logo was going to reach childern how to program. Most of the kids from the 80s that went on to program learned Basic not Logo. I heard Forth was the next big thing. It was as fast as Asm but it was portable. I found it to harder than Asm. Comal I loved, it was so much better than Basic. Right now Perl and PHP seem to be very hot languages. Python has potental to move up into a staring role. Python+wxWindows could be huge. It could be a replacement for Visual Basic. Ruby may end up being a curiosity language. It is a shame but often the best does not win.
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
Why does the rubyforge site have an apple ripoff look about it. Is a lot of ruby work done in macos?
last post!
Baby Ruby says "bwarghhhhh!"
Karma: Bad due to google bombing - Robert Watkins woz 'ere.