RE: Anyone using Ruby for scripting?

From: Matthew Zito <mzito_at_gridapp.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 17:53:32 -0400
Message-ID: <C0A5E31718FC064A91E9FD7BE2F081B102FDE862_at_exchange.gridapp.com>

I will say, I ran into some stupidity on the part of the Ruby Oracle driver once - something about incorrectly passing in character encoding or something - the maturity is definitely not there like it is for perl or python.  

Matt  

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From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill_at_gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 5:51 PM To: steve.harville_at_gmail.com
Cc: Matthew Zito; oracle-l
Subject: Re: Anyone using Ruby for scripting?  

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Steve Harville <steve.harville_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> In any case, trying to do team programming with perl can be annoying,
> because you need to really get people to agree on common practices and
> conventions, because otherwise you have six different ways of doing
the same
> thing, and your code turns into a mess.

This is why I was looking at Ruby.

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