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