# Whatever happened to the Calibre project?

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**Created:** [September 26, 2006, 8:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-calibre-project/70099 "2006-09-26T20:33:50Z")\
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Whatever happened to the Calibre project?

It seems that there are a few gems that are remnants of the project (gem  
search --remote calibre), but I can’t locate a related Web site.

There doesn’t even appear to be a project for it on RubyForge anymore:

[http://calibre.rubyforge.com](http://calibre.rubyforge.com)

Has it been renamed?

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**Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 8:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-calibre-project/70099/2 "2006-09-26T20:37:51Z")

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Quoting “John W. Long” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):

I think they merged their project with Ruby F.s  
([http://facets.rubyforge.org/](http://facets.rubyforge.org/))

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**Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 8:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-calibre-project/70099/3 "2006-09-26T20:43:52Z")

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On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 03:35 +0900, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:

> > Has it been renamed?
> 
> I think they merged their project with Ruby F.s  
> ([http://facets.rubyforge.org/](http://facets.rubyforge.org/))

Yeah, I think (?) Facets was originally a subproject of Calibre (with  
others planned) but that they all merged into Facets.

As an aside, Facets is one of my favourite Ruby libraries - always  
something useful in there. Thanks Trans and everyone else involved 🙂

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**Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 4:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-calibre-project/70099/4 "2006-09-27T04:56:37Z")

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John W. Long wrote:

> Whatever happened to the Calibre project?
> 
> It seems that there are a few gems that are remnants of the project (gem  
> search --remote calibre), but I can’t locate a related Web site.
> 
> There doesn’t even appear to be a project for it on RubyForge anymore:
> 
> [http://calibre.rubyforge.com](http://calibre.rubyforge.com)
> 
> Has it been renamed?

Pau Garcia and Ross are correct. Calibre became Facets/MORE. I.e. the  
class and module additions of Facets (as opposed to Facets/CORE which  
houses the extension methods).

Calibre did have one advantage over Facets, btw. With Calibre you could  
download/install any class/module independently of any other. With  
Facets you have to download and install everything at once. Some people  
complain about the size of lib becuase of this, but it’s really not all  
thay big by today’s standards, and you are welcome to cherry pick the  
lib if you wish (just be sure to give proper credits). Also, I will  
soon release a very nice solution for this very issue.

HFH,  
T.

(Hey Ross. Thanks for the good word!)

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**Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 8:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-calibre-project/70099/5 "2006-09-27T08:06:14Z")

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John W. Long wrote:

> Trans wrote:
> 
> > Pau Garcia and Ross are correct. Calibre became Facets/MORE. I.e. the  
> > class and module additions of Facets (as opposed to Facets/CORE which  
> > houses the extension methods).
> 
> Perhaps something could be setup so that when you search for Calibre on  
> RubyForge it comes up with the Facets library? I think it’s just a  
> matter of mentioning Calibre in the project summary.

Done. Good idea!

Thanks,  
T.

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**Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 6:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-calibre-project/70099/6 "2006-09-27T06:08:03Z")

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Trans wrote:

> Pau Garcia and Ross are correct. Calibre became Facets/MORE. I.e. the  
> class and module additions of Facets (as opposed to Facets/CORE which  
> houses the extension methods).

Perhaps something could be setup so that when you search for Calibre on  
RubyForge it comes up with the Facets library? I think it’s just a  
matter of mentioning Calibre in the project summary.