From: Chad Fowler Date: 2005-08-19T05:50:03+09:00 Subject: Re: RubyGems praise (was Re: Rails vs X) On 8/17/05, why the lucky stiff wrote: > Phil Tomson wrote: > > >BTW: Kudos to the gem-folk, here's a quote from the article: > >"Installing both Rails and Django is fairly easy once you've got the > >relevant interpreter installed. Ruby can make use of the excellent Gems > >system, which is something Python (and to be fair most other languages > >including Java) would do well to mimic." > > > > > Also recently spotted this praise: > > http://dirtsimple.org/2005/08/ruby-gems-python-eggs-and-beauty-of.html > > I had no idea you could serve gems directly with gem_server. That's > stupendous. I mean it. That's really stupendous, everyone. > Yea, I think we haven't done a good enough job of publicizing this fact. You know, I assume, about gem_server serving rdoc, right? The funny thing is that we added the rdoc feature as a nice-to-have, but the real reason for gem_server was to actually serve gems. We did this on day 2 of RubyConf 2003 and it's been there ever since. Way down on my TODO list for a long time has been to create a Rendezvous/DNSSD/Bonjour-enabled version of the gem_server, so you could dynamically discover and search gem_servers on your local network. That might be a fun hack before or during RubyConf to play with when we're all together. -- Chad Fowler http://chadfowler.com http://rubycentral.org http://rubygarden.org http://rubygems.rubyforge.org (over 800,000 gems served!)