From: Joao Pedrosa <joaopedrosa@...>
Date: 2005-03-11T13:44:59+09:00
Subject: Re: [JOB] Possible ruby job in SF Bay Area

Hi,

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:37:08 +0900, Jamis Buck <jamis_buck@byu.edu> wrote:
> On Mar 10, 2005, at 8:20 PM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> >
> > Ruby: 2 years, responsible for at least one project of >10K
> >       lines. (Strong Lisp/SmallTalk background may be an
> >       acceptable substitute.)
> 
> Just curious: how many people have written a project in Ruby consisting
> of over 10K lines of code? Even my own most complex lib, Net::SSH, is
> only 8.5k lines. (Well, I guess it's 16.7k if you count the unit tests,
> but I'm still curious as to how common this is.)
> 
> What is the average LOC for a typical "complex" (for some arbitrary
> definition of complex) Ruby project?

I don't know. But > 50k LoC is a little bit over the top I think.
Below that is reasonable. What's the biggest project in Ruby that
people have heard of? I remember Rich Kilmer's and the site that Dave
Thomas wrote. :-)

Cheers,
Joao