From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-11-20T06:25:47+09:00
Subject: Re: rails boredom antidote?

Giles Bowkett wrote:
> Bit heretical but I'm kinda flagging on doing Rails day in and day
> out. Two questions if anybody's interested - What are people working
> on in Ruby that doesn't Rails? Or, what in Rails is interesting and
> exciting to more experienced programmers with perspective etc.?

I'd venture to guess that Rails work in all covers about half of the 
total Ruby ergs expended. So, leaving aside alternative web frameworks, 
there are plenty of projects to choose from.

On your second question, about the only thing *I* find interesting in 
Rails is performance tuning it. I discovered Rails before I discovered 
Ruby, but I just couldn't get into the "Rails attitude", dismissed the 
hype, and went directly to learning Ruby.
> 
> So far the most interesting not-Rails Ruby projects I'm aware of are
> Rubinius, Shoes, RubyCocoa, and Adhearsion. Other cool stuff going on?
> Bonus points if the Web isn't even remotely involved. Huge bonus
> points if robots or psychedelic visuals are.

There is quite a bit of that going on ... some other people have posted 
on the subject. Do a Google for "dorkbot" and I think some stuff will 
surface.