Comparing Ruby Application Archive (RAA) to RubyForge?

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People,

I've done some searching in both RAA and RubyForge.

I'm mostly looking for content to teach myself to be a better
Ruby and Rails developer.

They both look like open-source repositories to me but
RubyForge looks 'bigger' (to me).

Do certain types of projects land in RubyForge rather than
RAA for any particular reason?

-Dan
btw,
I found some interesting content here:
http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=293

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Dan Bikle wrote:

People,

I've done some searching in both RAA and RubyForge.

I'm mostly looking for content to teach myself to be a better
Ruby and Rails developer.

They both look like open-source repositories to me but
RubyForge looks 'bigger' (to me).

Do certain types of projects land in RubyForge rather than
RAA for any particular reason?

Um, RAA is older, so many projects were added there before there ever was a RubyForge.

RubyForge hosts project code; RAA serves as a directory for code hosted almost anyplace.

-Dan
btw,
I found some interesting content here:
http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=293

There's some stuff listed here, too:

http://ruby.codezoo.com/

James

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Dan Bikle ha scritto:

People,

I've done some searching in both RAA and RubyForge.

I'm mostly looking for content to teach myself to be a better
Ruby and Rails developer.

They both look like open-source repositories to me but
RubyForge looks 'bigger' (to me).

Do certain types of projects land in RubyForge rather than
RAA for any particular reason?

RAA is an index of packages, rubyforge is also a hosting for projects.
In theory everyone that has something in rubyforge should also list it in RAA, while RAA should also index packages hosted elsewhere, so it should have more results.

In practice I think that there is a trend beetween people that joined the ruby comunity when RF was already active to just stop there and don't include the package in RAA.