Giles Bowkett wrote:
> Bit heretical but I'm kinda flagging on doing Rails day in and day
> out. 

Makes sense.

> Two questions if anybody's interested - What are people working
> on in Ruby that doesn't Rails? 

*  Ramaze.  And Nitro.

* JRuby desktop apps


Or, what in Rails is interesting and
> exciting to more experienced programmers with perspective etc.?
> 
> So far the most interesting not-Rails Ruby projects I'm aware of are
> Rubinius, Shoes, RubyCocoa, and Adhearsion. Other cool stuff going on?
> Bonus points if the Web isn't even remotely involved. Huge bonus
> points if robots or psychedelic visuals are.
> 


I bet JRuby + Swing could do the trippy visuals.

See Monkeybars.


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