Gemcutter to become default gem host

Re:Gemcutter to become default gem host by charlesju on Monday October 26, 2009 @11:33AM (#903383)

I would still like to see a more social gem discovery system. I want to find all the popular gems, but neither gemcutter, rubyforge, nor github has a way to do this (past say the top 30-40 gems).

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Re:Gemcutter to become default gem host by qrush on Monday October 26, 2009 @11:37AM (#903392)

I agree, let's make it happen. The great thing is that Gemcutter is open source, and as a community these kinds of things are possible now.

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Re:Gemcutter to become default gem host by wheels on Monday October 26, 2009 @01:30PM (#903654)

We'd be more than happy to set up a free account on our recommendations engine to track / recommend gems for folks. I think for the social discovery element of things to work though either gemcutter would need some sort of tracking element that it associated with clients that were pulling down gems (on the server side) or the gem client would need to communicate directly with the recommendations server. Hmm...

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Re:Gemcutter to become default gem host by Jim_Neath on Monday October 26, 2009 @11:36AM (#903389)

I don't know how useful this is, in the case of gems, but you can see the 30 (I think) most popular projects on github, based on number of forks or watchers:

http://github.com/popular/forked http://github.com/popular/watched

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Re:Gemcutter to become default gem host by charlesju on Monday October 26, 2009 @02:09PM (#903756)

That's where I got the idea from. I was really excited to see what the most popular projects on github were, but this is just the tip of the iceberg b/c they refuse to show the complete leaderboard breakdown.

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Re:Gemcutter to become default gem host by gpiancastelli on Monday October 26, 2009 @03:05PM (#903912)

What about the http://gems.rubyforge.org/stats.html page hosted on RubyForge?

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