From: Kirk Haines <khaines@...>
Date: 2004-08-12T19:52:04+09:00
Subject: Re: What are people using Ruby for?

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 19:01:11 +0900, Martin DeMello wrote

> I've noted that ruby developers seem to prefer wrting libraries to
> applications :)

I don't think that is true.  People write libraries because the libraries 
help them accomplish some other goal.  It's just that the libraries are the 
only publically consumable parts of whatever that other goal is.

I'm writing a small application right now, for example.  It is a management 
panel for a mutual fund company to enter and maintain various pieces of 
information about their funds, all of which in turn gets queried and 
displayed in some format on their web site.  It's a very simple, boring 
application with a very narrow purpose, and I would venture to guess that 
much of the application programming that goes on with Ruby has a similar 
sort of narrow scope for a specific client and purpose, so those 
applications tend to not get mentioned or released nearly so much as the 
libraries that people create to help them with the applications.


Kirk Haines