For those of you who don’t like the current gem search engine at
rubygems.org, I have deployed a better search engine at
http://www.rubygemsearch.org/ .
You can search Ruby gems by name, by description, or by other
parameters.
You can sort the results by number of downloads or by other parameters.
Sorting by number of downloads allows you to see which of the gems in
your
search are the most popular. This helps you pick the better-known gems.
If
you’re looking for a project to contribute to, sorting by the number of
downloads will lead you to the projects that have a greater impact on
the
Ruby community.
My next step is to give the rubygems.org search engine the improved
search
engine of rubygemsearch.org. In other words, my next step is to make my
own site obsolete.