What I was trying to say is that selling is very important. It is one of
the reasons Rails became so popular instead of, say, TurboGears or Django.
It had that 15 minutes blog video and nice documentation.
All of this take a lot of time to prepare. While head-to-head marketing
is great, there
In my opinion, the best kind of advertising that can be done for JRuby is for
users to evangelize it to other developers. I'd much rather read an article
written by a fellow developer about the merits of JRuby versus reading a press
release put out by some marketing team.
A lot of the ideas you
By the way, wouldn't RedHat consider hiring someone (or a team) for
taking care of JRuby advertising?
In my opinion JRuby has lots of great features that are not available in
other implementations that lots of regular developers are not aware of.
If a team could focus on advertising JRuby for
How about mentioning the jbundler gem in the official final release notes?
https://github.com/mkristian/jbundler
Such announcement could be the start for a solid bundler support in
JRuby integrated with Maven artifacts, which would be a big plus.
Once people see the JRuby release notes commen
