From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-03-11T23:56:09+09:00
Subject: Re: [JOB] Possible ruby job in SF Bay Area

* Jamis Buck (Mar 11, 2005 14:10):
> 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?

My current project (unveiled shortly) is currently above the mark.
However, most of the code is written in C that is then interfaced to
Ruby.  This is done exclusively for performance reasons.  I'd say that
the Ruby code would still have reached a sizeable number of lines, but
perhaps not as many as the C + Ruby version.

Anyway, the >10K loc in Ruby is unrealistic I'd say.  As you say,
Net::SSH is complex, perhaps one of the most complex public libraries
written solely in Ruby; yet it's only 8.5K loc,
	nikolai

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