From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-05-10T11:28:41+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Why Ruby? -- A Resource for Promoting Ruby

Joel VanderWerf wrote:
>
> Curt Hibbs wrote:
> >   http://whyruby.rubyforge.org/
>
> Some of the markup on that page is being rendered literally. This is
> what I see:
>
> <i>If this is your first visit here, please click on Preferences above
> to register so that your name can be associated with your changes and
> contributions.</i>

Thanks for pointing this out -- I did this at 3am when I was probably too
tired!

> It might look better if this wiki was written in Ruby. :) <a
> href="http://www.instiki.org">Instiki</a> is quite good.

I *love* Instiki, and use it on all of my personal machines.

Unfortunately, its really not appropriate to use on RubyForge. Because it
uses Object Prevalence (via Madeleine), this means that the entire wiki is
resident in memory at runtime. This may be alright for a single server, but
for a community resource like RubyForge that hosts many hundreds of projects
(and potentially as many wikis), using Instiki would be too much of a drain
on its system resources.

Curt