From: Ara.T.Howard@...
Date: 2005-04-26T05:24:31+09:00
Subject: Re: boulder_denver.rb

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Rick Nooner wrote:

>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 03:21:30AM +0900, Aredridel wrote:
>>
>> Ooh, spiffy stuff. I've been looking at how hard it would be to use
>> Ruby as a control language for Asterisk. Neat stuff, that.
>
> Yeah, Asterisk is a cool project and Ruby would make a great control language.
>
> The problem that I've been working on though, revolve around controlling various
> pieces of VOIP test equipment in a distributed lab environment and providing a
> way of certifying a complete VOIP switching environment that may be made up of
> hundreds of computing nodes.  Since I have modules that live on each node, it
> becomes a big distributed computing problem.  There has to be a central system
> that controls the testing and report success/problems/failure as well.
> Fun stuff :-) and Ruby (with Drb and Rinda) is good at it, too!
>
> This is the first project that I've been able to openly use Ruby and the only
> reason that I have the latitude to this is because last year I finished another
> distributed systems project under time and under budget using Ruby without
> asking permission.  This system has required zero maintenance and has been running
> since last June.  It is made up of over 2000 nodes scattered around the world.
>
> It's sad that companies don't put more faith in their engineering staffs decision
> making.

sounds like a great presentation for the first boulder_denver ruby
presentation ;-)

game?

-a
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