From: Laurent Julliard <laurent@...>
Date: 2005-03-11T16:55:27+09:00
Subject: Re: [JOB] Possible ruby job in SF Bay Area

Jamis Buck 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?
> 

FreeRIDE (the Ruby IDE) is roughly 20,000 LOC (25,000 lines with 
comments)

Laurent