Pat and Lori Boyer wrote:
I currently use ruby for a lot of my sysadmin tasks. I think python and ruby are the best choices now - I've tried both languages and found them both easy to work with. I chose ruby because it felt more comfortable to be somehow. For most people, the choice between the 2 languages will come down to personal taste, IMHO.
Would you expect ruby to be able to scale up to projects like OpenNMS, Alfresco, or what Pentaho does?