From: Phlip <phlip2005@...>
Date: 2009-03-09T13:03:14+09:00
Subject: Re: What are the 5 most innovative ruby projects/libraries?

> Nobody seems to have taken notice here but shoes is not a library of
> any kind. Its more like a different ruby implementation. It comes with
> its own ruby fork and cannot be installed as a gem or something.

Shoes is indeed the answer to the question "if Rails is so bitchen, why isn't it 
on the list of innovative ruby projects?"

Rails can't possibly innovate because it has only one purpose in the world - 
linking SQL (a preexisting innovation) to HTML (another preexisting innovation).

Shoes takes the best DSL concepts from Rails, and other good projects, and then 
builds a whole new platform that ignores SQL and refutes HTML.