From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-11-15T02:12:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby in the enterprise...

Wood, Jeff wrote:

> Hello all, 
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> I'm looking for a couple of things... But I figured the wealth of intelligence here could very easily help me figure them out.
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> #1 I am looking for a networking toolkit like Twisted (for Python) for use with Ruby.
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> #2 Can anybody state any enterprise level applications that are built in Ruby?  I'm trying to convince others of the power and usefulness that Ruby can/could have (for them, I already see/use it), but since all they care about is "Yeah, well show me where somebody is using it at enterprise-scale" ... So, I figured I'd ask.


Rich Kilmer gave an impressive talk about recent  Ruby work his company 
(InfoEther) has done for DARPA.

"Controlling and Testing Distributed Systems with Ruby"

The slides, however, do not seem to be available yet, though I think the 
talk is available as an mp3.

http://www.rubytalk.com/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/115455

It is an outstanding success story, of the "this can't be done!" sort.

James