From: Brad Tilley <rtilley@...>
Date: 2006-11-29T22:43:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Is ruby a viable corporate alternative?

Quoting Richard Conroy <richard.conroy@gmail.com>:

> Ruby is a great language but if windows development is of primary interest to
you, >you will have to curtail your ambitions or research the problem
thoroughly.

This has been my experience as well. Windows support is improving, but it's not
as good as some other open source/free scripting languages (Python and Perl).
Having said that, you can still do a lot with Ruby on Windows (especially
systems stuff). I wrote this in Ruby on Windows, it's not a very good example,
but it's very Windows specific:

http://filebox.vt.edu/users/rtilley/public/svc_tag/svc_tag.html

When I have to muck around with security descriptors or other more complex
windows specific stuff, I general use Python when Ruby cannot do the task as
easily.

Just my 2 cents,

Brad