Paul Robinson wrote:
>
>> Possible Gems to develop (not me!)
>
> Where to start? Look at CPAN, look at Rubyforge, subtract one from the 
> other and you have a list of candidates, I suppose...
>
Although I am the first to point out the advantages of CPAN and bemoan 
the lack of such a resource in other languages playing catchup to CPAN 
is just plain crazy. You will always be behind the game. Rails is 
however a very good example of the sort of thing that can spread the 
awareness of Ruby.