From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@...>
Date: 2006-03-22T15:01:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails vs. Ruby Evolution

On 3/22/06, gwtmp01@mac.com <gwtmp01@mac.com> wrote:
>
> Is anyone else concerned that the rapid evolution and adoption of
> Rails is de facto
> forking the core and standard libraries of Ruby?
>
> I don't like the idea of having to know if I'm looking at Ruby on
> Rails or Ruby Classic.

Yes this could get tricky and/or dangerous.

But it makes me wonder: if the Rails guys found these so useful and
needful then why not add some to the standard library?

It would at least be nice if they were easily required and used
outside of Rails (this may be the case, I haven't looked lately.)

Ryan