I’ve been lately digging in RubyForge trying to find good open source projects built using Ruby. Unfortunately there are only few mature projects out there. However, there are plenty of new ones with great potentials.

The adoption of Ruby in open source projects is as important as adopting it in the enterprise.

There are so many reasons to use Ruby to build open source software, here are few:

• Fast gorwing community of developers and supporters
• Short learning curve
• Easy to read syntax, allowing developers to understand the code with minimum documentation
• Posses an excellent MVC framework (Rails) making it a great fit for web applications.
• Supports trendy technologies such as RSS, SOAP, XML, REST and AJAX.
• High code reusability by utilizing plugins and engines

And of course Ruby is open source after all …