From: khaines@...
Date: 2007-03-30T09:51:15+09:00
Subject: Re: On Enterprise Ruby

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, S. Robert James wrote:

> wonderful, and has great bindings to dozens of languages - but Ruby is
> left with http-access2, which is very underpowered compared to cURL.
> What about image processing?  Look at all the complaints of
> reliability, memory leaks, and restarting daemons you get with
> RMagick!  What about file compression?

So write something better.  Be the person who steps up and fills a void, 
instead of the person who just whines about perceived voids.

> Another point: error handling.  Half the core libraries provide very
> cryptic error messages when something goes wrong.  Google the mailing
> lists and you'll see lots of cries for help.  This is another area
> which needs improvement.

So subscribe to ruby-core and provide patches.


Kirk Haines