From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-05-14T22:48:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Please revisit  Ruby's Best and vote for additions

Lyle Johnson wrote:
>
> Curt Hibbs wrote:
>
> > If you were an early visitor to:
> >
> >   http://whyruby.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Ruby's_Best
> >
> > You may want to go back again and look at all of the entries that other
> > people have made since then and vote for the ones you think are the best
> > representatives of outstanding Ruby software. The primary
> purpose is to get
> > a good sense of which Ruby packages are the best candidates to
> showcase in
> > presentations to advocate the use of Ruby.
>
> 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". One could technically argue that
> an IDE like FreeRIDE is an application, but I don't see anything there
> that really stands on its own -- they're all packages, tools, etc. that
> developers would use to develop end-user applications, web sites,
> whatever.

I guess Instiki is the closest thing on the list to an end-user application.
There's Hal's Tycho, but it really too early in its development.

Ironically, writing end-user applications was what I've always wanted to do
with Ruby, but instead I've been helping to build out the (needed)
infrastructure. Someday I will write that killer end-user Ruby
application... but not in time to get it on this list!  :-)

Seriously though, if anyone has a good candidate for an end-user
application, please add it to this list.

Thanks,
Curt