adewale said:

adewale

Are there any source control systems written in Ruby?

1 year ago.

5 comments so far

  • Neil

    Not that I know of - but everyone using Ruby for Web apps (Rails, Merb, etc) uses Git & GitHub.com. I just finished a Skype chat with a Ruby dev on the other side of the world (he's in Oz, I'm in the UK) and we both agreed that there's nothing to compare to GitHub.

    1 year ago by Neil

  • adewale

    Thanks. I'm writing something and I was looking for examples of open source projects that are "algorithmically sophisticated". So far I have Git, Mercurial and Subversion.

    I don't have any Ruby examples though

    1 year ago by adewale

  • Neil

    Have you seen Linus' talk on Git @ Google? http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8

    http://www.rubyinside.com/ would be a good place to start. Some parts of ActiveRecord (the Rails database wrapper) are said to be 'fiendishly clever', but I don't know if it could be justified as "algorithmically sophisticated".

    Would a Ruby recommendation system fit the bill? If so, I can ask my friend who writes recommendation systems in Ruby - he's finishing a PhD in Maths and spent the summer doing Wakoopas recommendation algorithm (in Ruby!).

    1 year ago by Neil

  • adewale

    Linus's talk was good although I found I learned more from this one on Mercurial: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7724296011317502612

    Ruby Inside was very helpful. Thanks.

    I'm looking for something that's open source so that I can say to people "go look at the code for this and write down what you've learned that you think you can apply to your dayjob"

    1 year ago by adewale

  • Neil

    My friend just replied with this; http://www.igvita.com/2007/01/15/svd-recommendation-system-in-ruby/

    It's only 50 LOC but it's far from basic web app CRUD. I should have thought of igvita - it's a great blog, worth subscribing to even if you don't do Ruby.

    1 year ago by Neil

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