From: Austin Ziegler <Austin.Ziegler@...>
Date: 2004-05-11T01:14:01+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Why Ruby? -- A Resource for Promoting Ruby

Might I suggest using Ruwiki for this purpose?
http://ruwiki.rubyforge.org/ already runs Ruwiki :)

I am a bit bogged down with real work right now, but I am hoping to have
0.8 out toward the end of the month.

-austin
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austin ziegler * austin.ziegler@evault.com
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Curt Hibbs [mailto:curt@hibbs.com] 
> Sent: 9 May 2004 22.29
> To: ruby-talk ML
> 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
> 
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