How Ruby is beating Python in the battle for the Soul of System Administration

Re:How Ruby is beating Python in the battle for the Soul of ... by sliverstorm on Monday October 03, 2011 @09:27AM (#3066168)

This is a rather misguided article. Unless everything has completely changed, Ruby is used for almost nothing in mainstream Linux. Bash and Python dominate "stock" system management code, and Bash and Perl seem to dominate for top-level add-on scripts written by a given sysadmin.

I've never even heard of any of those Ruby projects besides puppet, and I've only ever once installed Ruby- to support some obscure v0.03a library a developer wanted to try.

(Was a part-time sysadmin for 2 years)

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Re:How Ruby is beating Python in the battle for the Soul of ... by bryanwb on Monday October 03, 2011 @09:57AM (#3066265)

The unstated premise of this article is that all sysadmins will very soon be using puppet or chef, thus programming in some subset or DSL that looks a lot like ruby (puppet).

However, that's a separate article that I need to get around to writing.

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