From: "Anders Engström" Date: 2004-05-15T07:13:51+09:00 Subject: Re: Please revisit Ruby's Best and vote for additions * James Britt : > 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. > > Advocate the use of Ruby for *what*? > [snip] > > We need to demonstrate that Ruby easier to develop, easier to maintain, > and solves the same business needs (including concerns over speed, > security, scalability, and reliability). > > Perhaps Ruby needs the equivalent of the "Pet Store" example. > Good call. Coming from a J2EE background I'm really fed up with all the "e-commerce, b2c" demo applications used to prove that Struts/WebWork/EJB/Spring/Hibernate/C# is *the* supreme development platform. *But* they've provided an excellent code-base for learning and "best-practices". It's also crucial to demonstrate a complete, working "enterprise" application (from presentation tier, domain model to persistence/integration layer). Perhaps the Ruby equivalent would be a "Jewelry Shop"? :) //Anders -- /** * Anders Engstr�m, aengstrom@gnejs.net * ------------------------------------- * Your mind is like an umbrella. * It doesn't work unless you open it. * /Frank Zappa */