From: "Bradley, Todd" <todd.bradley@...>
Date: 2004-11-13T02:03:10+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Rubymine.org

>     I've released Rubymine, a place where rubyists can obtain 
> great knowledge within time of working together. There have 
> already been an article and a few announcements.
> 
> http://www.rubymine.org

Looks cool.  But I'm so confused by the high number of
different-but-similar Ruby websites.  It seems like there are lots of
websites, forums, email lists, etc. with somewhat overlapping purposes.
Maybe I'm being unrealistic, but it seems like a lot of duplication of
effort.  Don't get me wrong - it's awesome that there's such a broad
support network for Ruby users, but it's hard to figure out where to go
for what.

From what I can tell, we have:

ruby-lang.org: news, documentation, some projects

Ruby Garden: blogs, wiki

Ruby Forge: software project home base...

but many Ruby projects seem to have their own websites too (Rails,
RubyXML, instiki)

Ruby Talk: email list

comp.lang.ruby: NNTP version of Ruby Talk (I think)

Ruby Mine: blogs, forums

Ruby Forum: more forums


Is this how it is nowadays with other small but popular languages?  How
come so many people make their own place to post Ruby info, rather than
reusing what's already there?


Todd.