From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2011-01-06T02:40:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Petition to add Metasploit Project as Ruby success story

On Jan 5, 2011, at 8:52 AM, Christian Kirsch wrote:

> Can someone please recommend whom to contact for updates to the Ruby website? I'm referring to page 
> http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/success-stories/ 

The VIT Core mailing list usually handles these discussions.  The webmaster email link at the bottom of each page sends messages there.

> I propose listing this project in the new section "Security" as follows: 
> 
> The Metasploit Framework, developed by Rapid7, is an open-source penetration testing software that helps IT professionals assess the security of their networks and applications. It is the world's largest Ruby project with over 700,000 lines of code and over a million unique downloads and updates in the past year. The commercial editions Metasploit Express and Metasploit Pro from Rapid7 are also based on Ruby. 

I don't see any reason we couldn't list it.

My one comment though is that I don't like calling it "the world's largest Ruby project."  There are multiple ways to measure that, of course.  I realize that you name two:  lines of code (which I'm not convinced is an advantage) and downloads.  I'm doubting your claim on the downloads entirely, since rubygems.org lists over 2 million downloads for Rails:

  http://rubygems.org/gems/rails

If we can dump the my-framework-can-whip-your-framework aspects, and just talk about why Metasploit is cool, I'm fine with putting it up.

James Edward Gray II