Binary Logic » Rants Ben Johnson's thoughts and programming
techniques Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:19:58 +0000 en hourly 1
Rubyforge, overshadowed by GitHub Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:36:00
+0000 benjohnson 0/2008/12/12/rubyforge-overshadowed-by-github
Rubyforge is becoming increasingly outdated and less useful,
thanks to GitHub. Rubyforge is mainly used as service for
hoe/echoe and rubygems, not as a website or SCM. The days of
manually uploading libraries or configuring a completely
separate library to release your library (Hoe/Echoe) are over.
Everything is starting to revolve around SCMs and become
automatic.  Take Githubs gem resource. It’s extremely easy to
use, you don’t have to do anything except commit your code,
which you are already doing. They handle the rest.  Yes, I know
you can add GitHub as a gem source, but this presents A LOT of
problems and frankly I am very surprised that this feature was
added considering the downfalls. Rubygems is not an OS package
manager, nor do I think it ever should be. Ruby is all