From: Chad Fowler <chad@...>
Date: 2007-01-10T03:00:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Tattle - The Ruby Census

On 1/8/07, Rob Muhlestein <rob@muhlestein.net> wrote:
> Chad Fowler wrote:
> > Greetings and Happy New Year, Rubyists!
> >
> > At the first Rails Edge conference (http://therailsedge.com), Jim
> > Weirich, Bruce Williams, and I were chatting about how to improve the
> > RubyGems platform-specific behavior, when we realized that it would be
> > really helpful to have more info about the install footprint of the
> > Ruby community at large.
> >
> > So instead of going right into hacking RubyGems as was our plan, we
> > created a little census tool and an accompanying web site to help us
> > collect information.  Most of the info we collect is from
> > Config::CONFIG, with the addition of the RubyGems version.
> >
> > We know this information will help the implementers of RubyGems, and
> > we hope it will also help Ruby implementers and library developers as
> > well.
> >
> > To install:
> >
> > $ sudo gem install tattle
> >
> > To submit your info:
> >
> > $ tattle
> >
> > If you want to see what would be posted before posting, you can do:
> >
> > $ tattle report
> >
> > The information gets posted to http://tattle.rubygarden.org.  You can
> > view the posted data with your web browser at that URL.
>
> This is a great idea.
>
> Are there plans to allow submission of a semi-anonymous collection of
> internal census data from potentially thousands of internally managed
> clients? Perhaps some way to submit to you directly a data file
> containing a summation of the data submitted individually to tattle.
>

We've talked about that.  Wouldn't be too hard.  Just need to do it.

Chad