alt Hacker NewsI never used shell scripts for that. Ruby worked much better and easier. No glitches either.
I also fail to see how verbosity is a "huge upgrade".
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jamespo • yesterday at 5:34 PM
So your systems have a dependency on ruby to startup and anyone who maintains it has to know ruby?
The problem is Ruby is not de-facto installed on most distros. Shell is the "universal" thing, but shell is actually not portable, even across distros. Perl is the only thing I'd qualify as both "sufficiently portal" and "universal". But then you have to write Perl, which nobody wants to do seemingly.