From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-03-29T11:07:55+09:00
Subject: Re: On Enterprise Ruby

On Mar 27, 2007, at 8:05 PM, S. Robert James wrote:

> 1. SOAP.  This is a biggy.  It's the top of my list of "real
> hesitations before recommending Ruby".  Large apps need to talk to
> other apps.  Often, this is via SOAP.  Now, soap4r is buggy, poorly
> documented, and worse of all, has very incomplete WSDL support.

I have to agree on this one and it make me sad.

I've had to use this library three times in the last month and all  
three have been insanely painful.  It is easier to just capture a  
well-formed request and fill it out as a template and this is tragic.

This has become the number one standard library I really want to see  
redone.

> 2. Immaturity of Libraries. How many of the libraries that your
> project depends on have version numbers < 1.0?  'Nuff said.

And then you lost all of my respect...

James Edward Gray II