From: James Britt Date: 2006-06-23T02:32:08+09:00 Subject: Re: RailsForge transfire@gmail.com wrote: > pat eyler wrote: > >>On 6/22/06, transfire@gmail.com wrote: >> >>>I notice so many new projects are RoR oriented these days. Anyone >>>thinking about a dedicated RailsForge? >> >>I already worry about the growing separation between the RoR and >>Ruby communities. I'm afraid that a distinct RailsForge would only >>exacerbate the problem. > > > Growing separation? Huh. That's interesting. I worry about similar > idea, I think, but from a different perpective. I worry that Rails is > consuming Ruby and that in time Ruby may loose most of it's identity as > a language akin to Perl, say. And instead become thought of more like > PHP. Not an unreasonable concern. But the sense I get in my part of the world is that there really is a separation, with people who only know Ruby as Rails, and other people who use Ruby, but have only a passing interest in Rails. > > As for why a RailsForge. I personally have scant interest in Rails, so > all that Rails stuff is additional noise I must filter. And I imagine > there are Rails folk who are just the opposite. It's not like we can't > browse both sites, but at least it could help separate and organize > intent. This, in general, is an interesting challenge. How to encourage distributed efforts while making it easy for people to interact with a preferred collection of such efforts as though they were all in one place. (Portals are something of an approximation, but don't quite do it for me; they always seem to emphasize, rather than mask, the disjunction.) -- James Britt "I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there." - Richard P. Feynman