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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 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

  3. 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.