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.

[GuidoJ]

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.

Re:Ruby ? Hmm.

[sporty]

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

Re:Ruby ? Hmm.

[gavri]

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 :-)

Re:Ruby ? Hmm.

[Colonel Panic]

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

Tired of waiting for Perl6?

[Colonel Panic]

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.

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.

this is good to see

[Anonymous Coward]

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...

Re:this is good to see

[Anonymous Coward]

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!!)

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:Ruby ? Hmm.

[tcopeland]

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

Thanks,

Tom

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.