From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2003-08-21T16:26:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Evaluating Ruby objectively (not exactly)

Hal E. Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> skrev den Thu, 21 Aug 2003 
00:51:19 +0900:

> The only objective measure I know is the
> graph of the volume of ruby-talk. I always
> wanted to write a program to harvest from
> ruby-talk.org and produce a graph automatically.
> Have never done that.
>
I couldn't find the scripts I used for

http://rockit.sourceforge.net/ruby-talk-postings-to-oct01.png

(nowadays I subversion everything, even one-off scripts ;))

so I whipped up some new ones. However, I can't remember what
I used for making the barcharts. Maybe Gnuplot but I don't
use that much anymore.

Anyone can recommend a nice solution to make barcharts programmatically 
from Ruby?

Anyway here's the stats for ruby-talk so far:

[
["1998/12", 160],
["1999/01", 62],
["1999/02", 20],
["1999/03", 20],
["1999/04", 35],
["1999/05", 67],
["1999/06", 41],
["1999/07", 120],
["1999/08", 252],
["1999/09", 47],
["1999/10", 54],
["1999/11", 71],
["1999/12", 69],
["2000/01", 193],
["2000/02", 441],
["2000/03", 658],
["2000/04", 298],
["2000/05", 451],
["2000/06", 665],
["2000/07", 550],
["2000/08", 393],
["2000/09", 520],
["2000/10", 765],
["2000/11", 704],
["2000/12", 1742],
["2001/01", 1750],
["2001/02", 1609],
["2001/03", 1608],
["2001/04", 1055],
["2001/05", 1629],
["2001/06", 1026],
["2001/07", 1776],
["2001/08", 1716],
["2001/09", 1208],
["2001/10", 2116],
["2001/11", 3091],
["2001/12", 2784],
["2002/01", 3048],
["2002/02", 2089],
["2002/03", 2105],
["2002/04", 2261],
["2002/05", 2107],
["2002/06", 1763],
["2002/07", 2610],
["2002/08", 2867],
["2002/09", 3257],
["2002/10", 2637],
["2002/11", 2506],
["2002/12", 3063],
["2003/01", 3073],
["2003/02", 2682],
["2003/03", 2308],
["2003/04", 2073],
["2003/05", 2193],
["2003/06", 1948],
["2003/07", 2797],
["2003/08", 2124],
]

Regards,

Robert Feldt