Re: [PhillyOnRails] Business Justification for Ruby

[dblack@rubypal.com]

Hi --

On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Brian McNamara wrote:

> hi all,
>
> i've recently started a sys admin job where (a) the environment is tightly
> controlled and (b) ruby is not an approved language.  i would like to go
> thru the process of recommending ruby as a standard programming language so
> i can use it for day to day scripting tasks.
>
> has anyone in the phillyonrails community had to go thru something similar?
> i can use the arguments of rapid development, clear syntax, and rich
> standard library, but what other points could i use?  any and all help is
> greatly appreciated (either on the list or off-line).

You might check out some recent books, especially any with "business"
or "enterprise" in their names, so you could say, "As the author of
'Ruby blah blah Enterprise blah" says: ...."


David

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