From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2006-10-26T01:40:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there really an impending Ruby fracture???

pat eyler wrote:

> ...
> So, no, I'm not terribly worried.  I'm more worried that the Rails
> community will continue to create user groups without realizing
> that there's already a Ruby brigade in the area, or that people
> will continue to flock to Rails without reailizing the gem of a
> language that's hiding beneath the surface.  But those are a
> whole different kind of problem.
> 

If there is fracturing, it is with the Ruby as Rails point of view.

My experience is that some people will prefer to start a Rails group 
rather than attend an known, existing Ruby group because they are more 
interested in learning the correct incantations to run Capistrano than 
in understanding how Capistrano works.

For some, Rails is a nicer PHP or VB; Ruby per se is not of interest to 
them.  (Which is fine, unless or until Ruby discussions or gatherings 
are dominated by application development monoculture.)


-- 
James Britt

"The use of anthropomorphic terminology when dealing with
computing systems is a symptom of professional immaturity."
  - Edsger W. Dijkstra