From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2004-08-20T05:56:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby's Killer App - every language has one

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 05:40:52 +0900, Ruby Script
<nospam@nospamnospamnospam.com> wrote:
> Which ruby app is so compelling that people who don't even intend on
> programming ruby are willing to install it?
> 
> For Python, there's SCons and a few others.
> 
> What are some possible apps we can create in Ruby that will be OUR
> community's killer app?
> 
> A modern ViewCVS perhaps?  A cross-platform package manager that unites
> win32, linux and *bsd?  What is realistic, much-needed and compelling
> that we can produce within 12 months?
> 

Rails (http://rubyonrails.org) seems to be starting to fit your
definition these days.  I've heard quite a few reports of people
migrating to it even if they aren't Ruby programmers.


The Rails irc channel (#rubyonrails@freenode.net) has consistently had
about 40 people in it since it was setup.  In contrast it took us a
couple of years to do that with the main Ruby channel
(#ruby-lang@freenode.net).

Chad