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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 GuidoJ · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Or maybe, after reading the linked to websites everybody is now creating their own Ruby projects and are frantically hacking away at the keyboard ...

    Seriously though, here are a few observations:
    * the extensive feature list is quite impressive
    * the language has been around for more than 10 years now
    * there have been linux packages for as long as I can remember

    OTOH:
    * I never encountered an actual application written in Ruby
    * the latest news item on RubyForge is about a program for sorting (sorry, but it did not impress me very much)

    Oh well, it's probably big in Japan.

  2. Re:Ruby ? Hmm. by gavri · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Apparently, they're "too nice".
    As has been posted on the newsgroup (comp.lang.ruby) before, they're too "enlightened" to get into flamewars defending ruby.
    Flamewars, as we all know is the best forum for advocacy :-)

  3. this is good to see by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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...

    1. Re:this is good to see by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Getting more modules/apps! well I guess that's the idea of Rubyforge so its pretty good to see it created. OTOH it's NEW so don't expect a few thousands projects in a few days, though considering how fast you can develop in Ruby that might happen ;-).

      Really if you haven't tried Ruby give it a chance(or give yourself a chance,yes is that good) its a real joy to use. Regarding the not "different enough from perl" I don't really know what's that about!! ruby isn't perl, I can read and understand what I did months ago at first glance and the language itself leads you to a structured/readable code not spaggeti(I'm not saying perl code looks like it ok!!)