From: vasudevram <vasudevram@...>
Date: 2007-05-30T22:20:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Kiss your boring tasks goodbye: Everyday Scripting With Ruby

On May 30, 9:44 am, "Stephen Smith" <4fi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've read the book too.
>
> Anyone who's already been a sysadmin probably doesn't have much to
> learn from it conceptually. And if you're new to scripting, it's
> probably not structured or complete enough to get you started.
>
> It's a good resource, though, if you are new to Ruby and/or new to
> scripting. Gives you a bunch of solid concepts, some decent tips for
> the ordinary shortcuts the gurus don't want to admit knowing/bother
> teaching, and enough idiomatic code to get you going.
>
> Personally, I wish it ran you through some of the better command line
> gems (e.g., cmdparse). But hey, that's personal preference. There's
> some good stuff in here.
>
> +0.02
>
> On 5/29/07, Sean T Allen <s...@ardishealth.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > > I suspect that the type of everyday scripting and automation suggested
> > > by the book is the kind that must be driven by a person, not the kind
> > > that replaces one.
>
> > I have the book and I would describe it as entry level. If you automated
> > tasks in the fashion you suggested, you are way past learning anything
> > from the book.


Though not directly to the topic of the book mentioned, I just wanted
to say that there's another Ruby book, for the area of enterprise
integration, that's pretty good, in an analogous way to the scripting
one mentioned - though it discusses things at a level targetted at
more experienced programmers. I think its a pretty valuable resource
for anyone doing integration work.

I blogged a short review of it here:

http://jugad.livejournal.com/2007/04/15/

Enjoy,

Vasudev Ram
Dancing Bison Enterprises
http://www.dancingbison.com
"Eventually hardware fails. Eventually software works."