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Re:The Official Ruby Site Is Proudly Maintained by No-One by jsavimbi on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @10:36AM (#2841321)
I wouldn't put too much effort in judging a language or a community based on the free, unpaid-for, unmaintained website. If you look at the Ruby community, and I include Rails, Sinatra and Padrino folks as well, you'll see that the majority of the activity takes places in more of a social setting, examples being http://rubygems.org/gems/gemcutter and http://github.com and the great podcasts from folks like Peter Cooper, et al.

The time for engaging through a one-way webpage has long passed.

Re:The Official Ruby Site Is Proudly Maintained by No-One by petercooper on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @02:52PM (#2842454)
I actually agree with this, and feel that any sort of official site should link out to others as quickly as possible (rather than be a monolithic resource). Having some sort of official site is useful, however, since there are lot of people who aren't familiar with the modern ways and who will be looking at the official site for guidance. Currently those people are getting told RubyForge is the greatest thing since sliced bread..