From: Carlos <angus@...>
Date: 2004-08-31T20:15:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for system administration

[Martin DeMello <martindemello@yahoo.com>, 2004-08-31 11.40 CEST]
> I was talking to a sysadmin friend, who was shopping around for a
> scripting language. Naturally, I suggested ruby, and we spent a few
> minutes exploring its features, but it failed his crucial requirement -
> an interface to the package manager that shipped by default with the
> system ruby distribution. i.e., ruby on RedHatshould come with a ruby
> interface to the rpm db, etc.
> 
> It seemed like a very sensible idea to me - what do people think?

There is ruby-rpm: http://www.momonga-linux.org/~muraken/ruby-rpm/

For debian, dpkg-ruby, libdpkg-ruby.