Practical Ruby for System Administration

Chapter 7. Working with Enterprise Data

Ruby's value in a corporate environment is not to be underestimated. In this chapter, we'll cover how to perform some of the most common parsing tasks found in daily enterprise life, manipulating delimited values and XML documents with ease. The second half of the chapter is devoted to the vital requirement of being able to interact with business information systems over LDAP, XML-RPC, and SOAP, and using the increasingly popular REST principals.

RUBY'S ROLE IN THE ENTERPRISE

The Ruby community has had its share of flame wars about the readiness of Ruby for the enterprise. I have said that I can think of no modern language that matches Ruby's versatility and expediency. That means that I'm always keen to see ...