From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2004-05-08T00:40:30+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT]Is Ruby Top 1 of Programming Languages that are Loved?

On Fri, 7 May 2004, David Garamond wrote:

> Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> > this makes me think - there is a lot of presentaion material out there
> > praising ruby (matz's slides, pragmatic programmer stuff, personal
        [...]
>
> That's a great thing to do. But actually what I long for is a killer app
> for us to brag, a poster child for Ruby greatness, a popular app that

Many of the really nice apps are for programmers, like REXML, YAML,
RDoc, and more, but one of my favourite apps at the moment is glark.
It is a highlighting grep with some borrowings from find to help
when doing recursive searches.  And it is pure ruby.

http://glark.sourceforge.net/

Probably too sysadmin related to set the world alight.  (And it would
be even nicer if someone could provide me with a way of getting the
WinXP Command Prompt (cmd.exe) to support ANSI colo(u)r.  It has
been suggested that I modify config.sys, but I can find no docs
supporting that.  But this is off topic.)

Rubric is another good one -- a pure ruby news aggregator.
http://rubric.rubyforge.org/

        Hugh