From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2001-02-20T10:46:42+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11141] Ruby success stories?

This is kind of a followup to the thread I started last week "How to 
convince management".  I'm doing my presentation on Thursday and my 
manager has asked me to come up with some commercial applications that use 
Ruby (or actually, applications written in Ruby used in a commercial 
setting).

Anybody out there got anything I can use as a reference?  It would be nice 
to have:
1) What the application does.
2) Who was it for or where was it deployed?(if you can't name the 
company, that's OK, just tell me what industry they're in)
3) How long it took how many engineers to develop.
4) How big is it? (lines of code)
5) Whatever other comments you can provide ("It saved our company a 
million bucks!")


Also, I'm supposed to compare Ruby to Perl, Python and Java (I really 
don't think Java is appropriate for this problems space due to lack of 
built-in regex and ways of running external apps, but I'll give it 
a shot).  The centerpiece of my argument is dRuby - it allows us to deploy 
a distributed app like the one we need to develop very easily in Ruby.  I 
know that Perl doesn't have anything quite like it, but what about 
Python?


 Thanks

Phil