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Re: Learn Ruby

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Post by bdcravens » Thu, Apr 11, 2013, 4:24 AM UTC

gary4gar wrote: post #36

bdcravens wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It won't harm open source. Perhaps it'll harm future crowdfunding endeavors, as the trust level will be low. However, I think open source software that was funded on Kickstarter, but never delivered ( http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1397300529/railsapp ) is far more of a threat than courseware.

Rails.app which is now called Tokaido is not dead, see this: Kickstart Update: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1397300529/railsapp/post... Source Code: https://github.com/tokaido/tokaidoapp

Never said it was dead, but the promises of that project still haven't been fulfilled (see the Deliverables section of the project - a GitHub repo that developers can build in XCode isn't the .app that was promised) Note that update you linked to came a day after a pretty energetic discussion on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5116601

Re: Learn Ruby

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Post by bdcravens » Thu, Apr 11, 2013, 4:25 AM UTC

tomku wrote: post #34

bdcravens wrote: post #16

This violates Kickstarter rules. See the $50 pledge: The price will jump to $100 after the Kickstarter, so sign up now!" Kickstarter project guidelines: Kickstarter cannot be used to fund e-commerce, business, and social networking websites or apps. ( http://www.kickstarter.com/help/guidelines#prohibited ) No matter if you throw the "education" label on it, it's still a paid membership site. A business website. Even…

The local learning environment gem is "Open source (license TBD)" according to the page. Edit: Since you responded to my other comment - I'm not claiming that what they're doing is allowed by the rules, just responding to that particular point.

Yes, but that's not the totality of the project. Had it been limited to that, it would probably be ok.

Re: Learn Ruby

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Post by andreiursan » Thu, Apr 11, 2013, 5:22 AM UTC

knowtheory wrote: post #9

andreiursan wrote: post #3

Around minute 1:01, in the kickstarter video, he says that ruby is used by facebook o_O. I don't think that it is, is it?

Remember that both Chef and Puppet are written in Ruby. Ruby is in a lot of things by virtue of the fact that it's so prevalent in the DevOps world.

Yes, I also used Chef. But I don't think that is enough reason to market a language as beeing a "FB" one. Because in that way you can market that 80% of the companies use ruby.