Re:How Ruby is beating Python in the battle for the Soul of ...
by mitchty on Monday October 03, 2011 @11:02AM
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I somewhat agree even as a Ruby fan of 14 years.
We have puppet now at work, and going through the recipes, its rather obvious at times that people can use Ruby, without really learning the language.
I managed to shorten a number of the recipes and configs from 60 lines of... well WTF basically, to 10-20ish lines of much more readable ruby.
I will however agree with the assertion that if the management tools that are most popular are written in Ruby, one would be more likely to do more within them.
We have puppet now at work, and going through the recipes, its rather obvious at times that people can use Ruby, without really learning the language.
I managed to shorten a number of the recipes and configs from 60 lines of... well WTF basically, to 10-20ish lines of much more readable ruby.
I will however agree with the assertion that if the management tools that are most popular are written in Ruby, one would be more likely to do more within them.