From: "Anders K. Madsen" <madsen@...>
Date: 2004-08-12T11:46:14+09:00
Subject: Re: What are people using Ruby for?

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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:19:36 -0400
jmh <j_m_h@cox.net> wrote:

> I'm not currently a Ruby user but have heard about it for a
> while (few years). I've started looking into it and will get
> around to compiling it in the next few weeks but was curious
> how people are using the language. Is it primarily for
> sys admin tasks? Internal applications? External customers?
> Commercial applications?
> 

The short answer is 'yes'. ;-)

The longer answer is:
People use ruby for virtually everything. I'm using it for small
sys-admin tasks, web content (rewriting my site in Ruby atm), small
gui-apps etc... Only thing I can think of as a a drawback in Ruby (for
me at least) is speed.
If you're writing code that relies heavily on speed (especially startup
speed) I don't think Ruby is the perfect deal, but then again... I've
only been Rubying for a short while compared to some of the gurus here.
:) So one might be able to speed up the code somehow, I just don't know
how... Yet... ;)

E.g. I know batsman has written a wonderful package-manager in Ruby
(RPA (Ruby Production Archive) - http://rpa-base.rubyforge.org), which
handles Ruby packages sorta similar to the way apt-get of Debian, Yum of
YellowDog, ports of FreeBSD and emerge of Gentoo does (yes, the list
could go on forever). ("sorta similar" on userlevel at least.) It's a
really cool piece of software and now that I think of it, it's pretty
fast as well... Just one demonstration that Ruby is perfectly mature and
suitable for production level use.

Well, my 2 cents on this subject... Next! :)

	Madsen

-- 
 Anders K. Madsen --- http://lillesvin.linux.dk

"There are 10 types of people in the world.
 Those who understand binary - and those who don't."


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