Martin DeMello wrote: > Lyle Johnson <lyle / knology.net> wrote: > >>I just cast my votes. Also, an observation (but not a criticism): It is >>interesting to me that there aren't any entries on the list that I would >>consider pure end-user "applications". [...] > > I've noticed that about the ruby community in general - there's a lot > more interest in developing libraries, hacking the language, etc, than > in writing actual "applications". I think it's partly because of the > (unusually?) high level of interest in language design rubyists have, > and partly because as programers, we feel the lack of libraries more > than we feel the lack of apps. Also as programmers, we tend to build tools. At work I have Ruby utilities for dumping the database in various interesting ways (useful for debugging our system (written mainly in Java)), ruby installation scripts (this was a big win) for installing software, documents and middleware event, tools to parse and analyze the afore mentioned middleware events. Also testing tools and support scripts. Non of this counts as an end-user application, but I don't go a day without interacting with some software that's written in Ruby. -- -- Jim Weirich jim / weirichhouse.org http://onestepback.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas)