From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-04-18T00:30:11+09:00
Subject: Re: All Quiet on the Western Front: Is Rails overshadowing Ruby?

David Heinemeier Hansson <david@loudthinking.com> writes:

>>> Would Rails , for example, have been as successful if people had to
>>> manually install the half-dozen or so required libraries?
>>
>> Eh, there is one tar.gz that contains all of Rails libraries, where's
>> the problem with that?
>
> Further more, Rails didn't support RubyGems until a couple of releases
> in.
>
> Where RubyGems has made a big difference, I think, is for upgrading
> and trying out new versions of libraries you already have. So
> basically, it's the library versioning that, to me, is one of the
> biggest draws of RubyGems.

Now, I didn't get too deep into Rails, but how would one practically
do that:  Have several Rails projects, which all use different
versions of AR, AC etc...?

> And thanks for all the kind words about Rails. Ruby is ripe to make a
> similar splash in other areas than web applications. Can't wait to see
> the next triumph push Ruby even further.

> David Heinemeier Hansson,
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