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."

Comments

Re:Ruby ? Hmm.

[sporty]

Ruby is bigger in the land of the rising sun. You'd be amazed at usage "out there".

Re:eat your own cooking

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, the GForge code already existed and works pretty well, so why reinvent the wheel? Someone could have rewritten all of GForge in Ruby, I suppose, but why bother. In this case laziness wins out over hubris.

Re:eat your own cooking

[ichimunki]

Nope. I think it is very sensible when an existing application exists for a given purpose (like hosting collaborative software development projects) to use that software. If RubyForge were going to be written in Ruby, it would be quite some time before the site were "featureful" enough and stable enough to host other projects. Using existing software means that 1) other projects can get hosted today, 2) perhaps the Ruby version of *Forge can be hosted and developed on the non-Ruby version of *Forge.

Re:Ruby ? Hmm.

[tcopeland]

> yet only one single, trollish comment so far.

Yup, that's probably because the story only appeared on the "developer" sidebar. So it didn't get the usual attention that main page storied get. And to think I had MaxClients set to 40 in anticipation of a true Slashdotting! Oh well.

Re:eat your own cooking

[Arandir]

Ruby is not a scripting language in the sense that Perl is. Thus it is not necessarily suitable for creating web sites. It can be of course, just as you can create a site in C++, but the web site manipulation is not where it's strength lies.