> rubyforge.org has been offline for over a year and a half, as announced over 2 years ago. To those not drinking the RoR kool aid, this is toward my point. T

> rubyforge.org has been offline for over a year and a half, as announced over 2 years ago. To those not drinking the RoR kool aid, this is toward my point. Two years ago rubyforge.org was a central repository of Ruby gems. Now it is a web page that says "RubyForge Could Not Connect to Database:". Of course, in the minds of some, this does not reflect poorly on RoR but me - I am supposed to know that two years ago they decided to transform this central hub of Ruby gems to a web page that says "RubyForge Could Not Connect to Database:". This kind of thing is par for the course with Ruby. I know that the http://perl.org/cpan http://perl.org/cpan page I used twenty years ago is still redirecting somewhere sane, but rubyforge.org ? "RubyForge Could Not Connect to Database:" - and the fool is me for not knowing why. This is typical of the kind of thing you deal with in RoR world. Insofar as projects - a Java project can be junk just like an RoR project can, yes. The thing though is that relatively, the core Java infrastructure, community, API etc. has been much more stable over the past twenty years. Hearing that rubyforge.org disappeared eighteen months ago to be replaced by this cryptic message makes me more down on RoR-world than if it was just their website being down for a few hours. It's the kind of thing you deal with in RoR-world all the time.