From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2009-06-01T16:29:11+09:00
Subject: Re: [jruby-user] Re: Help JRuby "win" at JavaOne Script Bowl

Ted Han wrote:
> Hey Headius,
> 
> By my count there are 4664 unique gems up on rubyforge?  Do i have fail? 
> Additionally, you can get stats for the highest downloaded gems as well 
> here: http://gems.rubyforge.org/stats.html

I just pulled the full raw gem list and processed it. The stats line 
count is probably more correct.

> * Mack is another rack based framework ( http://www.mackframework.com/ ).

Had no idea about this one.

> * Iowa ( http://enigo.com/projects/iowa/tutorial/what_is_it.html ) is an 
> older web framework that Kirk Haines of Engine Yard still works on 
> (which incidentally was conceived of a long time ago by Avi Bryant).

Good catch, had forgotten it.

> * You're also leaving off Harbor (formerly called wheels) which was 
> produced by sam smoot & co. at Wieck Media ( http://wiecklabs.com/ ), 
> which is rack based and jruby only.

Wow, no idea. Good find.

> You might want to mention easy command line tool creators, rake and thor 
> are really good examples of that (although that requires some explanation).

Yeah, probably would fall under "development tools" category or 
something, along with rspec, test/unit, cucumber, and more...

- Charlie