From: Claus Folke Brobak Date: 2012-07-04T16:01:26+09:00 Subject: Ruby for LDAP access? In our company the desktop computers are running primarily Windows, the servers a mix of Windows, AIX, Linux and z/OS. Computers, groups and and users are defined in Active Directory. As such we are probably not very different from a lot of other companies. Active Directory can be accessed using LDAP and so far I have been using Ruby and the "net-ldap" gem for extracting information from Active Directory. However, the following comment from R. O'Connell has made me question the wisdom in using Ruby for LDAP access in the future: --- quote begin --- Interest in LDAP over the last few years has been sharply declining, especially in the Ruby community who tries to avoid enterprise-y type things as much as possible. There was a big push when 1.9 came out to make it functional since the library was completely broken, but other than that LDAP is generally eschewed in Ruby in favor of simpler things like Mongo for document stores (which LDAP really is) or Redis for simple key-value authentication. I'll try and keep up on patches and bug fixes, but I wouldn't expect a huge push simply due to the fact that LDAP is simply becoming irrelevant. --- quote end --- The quote is taken from this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-ldap/browse_thread/thread/f99381035f9032ea Now, Active Directory is not going away anytime soon, so I should like to hear the opinion and suggestions from forum members about using Ruby for LDAP/Active Directory access. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.