From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2004-05-10T11:59:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Why Ruby? -- A Resource for Promoting Ruby

On Mon, 10 May 2004 11:28:41 +0900, Curt Hibbs <curt@hibbs.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Have you tried Ruwiki?  It's missing some of Usemod's features, but it
wouldn't take long to surpass Usemod with Ruwiki.  It's good stuff so
far.

Chad