From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2009-06-18T10:50:28+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] enterprise 1.0.0 Released

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Aaron
Patterson<aaron@tenderlovemaking.com> wrote:
> enterprise version 1.0.0 has been released!
>
> * <http://github.com/tenderlove/enterprise/>
>
> Wish you could write your Ruby in XML?  Has the fact that Ruby is not
> "enterprise" got you down?  Do you feel like your Ruby code could be made to
> be more "scalable"?  Well look no further my friend.  You've found the
> enterprise gem.  Once you install this gem, you too can make Rails scale, Ruby
> faster, your code more attractive, *and* have more XML in your life.
>
> I'm sure you're asking yourself, "how can the enterprise gem promise so
> much?".  Well the answer is easy, through the magic of XML!  The enterprise
> gem allows you to write your Ruby code in XML, therefore making your Ruby and
> Rails code scale.  Benefits of writing your code in XML include:
>
> * It's easy to read!
> * It scales!
> * Cross platform
> * TRANSFORM! your code using XSLT!
> * Search your AST with XPath *or* CSS!
>
> The enterprise gem even comes with a handy "enterprise" binary to help you
> start converting your existing *legacy* Ruby code in to scaleable, easy to
> read XML files.  Let's start getting rid of that nasty Ruby code and replacing
> it with XML today!
>
> ## FEATURES/PROBLEMS:
>
> * require files completely written in XML
> * convert existing legacy ruby code to XML
>
> ## SYNOPSIS:
>
> Let's say you have some legacy Ruby code that looks like this:
>
>  class Foo
>    def hello_world
>      "bar"
>    end
>  end
>
>  puts Foo.new.hello_world
>
> Let's convert that crappy ruby code to XML:
>
>  <?xml version="1.0"?>
>  <s>
>    <block type="Symbol" value="block"/>
>    <s>
>      <class type="Symbol" value="class"/>
>      <Foo type="Symbol" value="Foo"/>
>      <special type="NilClass" value=""/>
>      <s>
>        <scope type="Symbol" value="scope"/>
>        <s>
>          <defn type="Symbol" value="defn"/>
>          <special type="Symbol" value="hello_world"/>
>          <s>
>            <args type="Symbol" value="args"/>
>          </s>
>          <s>
>            <scope type="Symbol" value="scope"/>
>            <s>
>              <block type="Symbol" value="block"/>
>              <s>
>                <str type="Symbol" value="str"/>
>                <bar type="String" value="bar"/>
>              </s>
>            </s>
>          </s>
>        </s>
>      </s>
>    </s>
>    <s>
>      <call type="Symbol" value="call"/>
>      <special type="NilClass" value=""/>
>      <puts type="Symbol" value="puts"/>
>      <s>
>        <arglist type="Symbol" value="arglist"/>
>        <s>
>          <call type="Symbol" value="call"/>
>          <s>
>            <call type="Symbol" value="call"/>
>            <s>
>              <const type="Symbol" value="const"/>
>              <Foo type="Symbol" value="Foo"/>
>            </s>
>            <new type="Symbol" value="new"/>
>            <s>
>              <arglist type="Symbol" value="arglist"/>
>            </s>
>          </s>
>          <special type="Symbol" value="hello_world"/>
>          <s>
>            <arglist type="Symbol" value="arglist"/>
>          </s>
>        </s>
>      </s>
>    </s>
>  </s>
>
> Now, simply save that XML file out to "test.xml".  With the enterprise gem,
> to execute this xml file, we just do:
>
>  $ enterprise_ruby test.xml
>
> enterprise lets you do a require on pure xml files too.  We can load the
> test.xml file like so:
>
>  require 'rubygems'
>  require 'enterprise'
>  require 'test'
>
> The final feature is an enterprise migration assistant.  To migrate an entire
> project to be enterprise, just do this:
>
>  $ enterprise some_directory
>
> To make a single file enterprise, just give it the filename:
>
>  $ enterprise some_file.rb
>
> I'm sure you're asking yourself, "how much does this enterprise solution cost
> me?".  Well, like any good enterprise system, it is insanely expensive.  This
> gem will cost you eleventy billion dollars payable to me, now.
>
> ## REQUIREMENTS:
>
> Like all good enterprise solutions, we do our best to get you stuck in a web
> of dependencies.  We are working hard to increase the number of dependencies,
> but here is the current list
>
> * ruby2ruby
> * ruby_parser
> * nokogiri
> * polyglot
>
> ## INSTALL:
>
> * sudo gem install enterprise
> Changes:
>
> ### 1.0.0 / 2009-06-17
>
> * 1 major enhancement
>
>  * Entering in to the enterprise
>  * Bringing ruby in the back door

Sorry, but it ain't enterprise unless it costs at least $1500 per
developer seat!


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