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RubyForge Open For Ruby Project Hosting

Posted by Hemos on from the create-and-develop dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Ruby ? Hmm. by Colonel+Panic · · Score: 5, Informative

    I never encountered an actual application written in Ruby

    Check out the RealWorldRuby wiki page for a list of real world applications of Ruby. It's in use at NASA, Intel, HP and Agilent among others.

    the latest news item on RubyForge is about a program for sorting (sorry, but it did not impress me very much)

    You have to remember that RubyForge has only been up for about a week.
    A couple of applications that are coming soon:
    * A genetic algorithms package
    * A swarm particle optimization package

  2. Tired of waiting for Perl6? by Colonel+Panic · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  3. Re: Ruby? Hmm. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    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..

  4. Re:Ruby ? Hmm. by tcopeland · · Score: 2, Informative

    Good idea, I've entered a feature request on the GForge core project here.

    Thanks,

    Tom

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