Comments on: Book Review: Practical Ruby for System Administration http://jystewart.net/process/2007/12/book-review-practical-ruby-for-system-administration/ notes from another web developer Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:17:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Not So Great http://jystewart.net/process/2007/12/book-review-practical-ruby-for-system-administration/comment-page-1/#comment-77798 Not So Great Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:39:27 +0000 http://jystewart.net/process/2007/12/book-review-practical-ruby-for-system-administration/#comment-77798 Hello, I am an occasional ruby user and a Systems Administrator. I had high hopes for this book, however I can sum up my review (FWIW) in one word: DISAPPOINTING !! Yes, that is right. No one expects you to teach us systems administration, and only a doofus would buy this book to learn about Ruby. The audience, as misleading implied by the title, is system administrations and developers who would like to use Ruby for more than just development tasks. It is a great travesty that this book has been written, thus filling a niche which will cause others to not publish a proper book on the use of Ruby vis-a-viz systems administration tasks. We need a Ruby book which helps systems administrators with sysadmin tasks, which include, but are not limited to: 1. File management 2. User/Account/Disk management 3. Password sync and environment refreshes from Production to Dev environments 4. automation of daily admin and (also DBA tasks) These types of things are SHAMEFULLY missing from this book which claims to be on that very subject. Sorry. This gets a BIG F.A.I.L from me. Hello, I am an occasional ruby user and a Systems Administrator. I had high hopes for this book, however I can sum up my review (FWIW) in one word:

DISAPPOINTING !!

Yes, that is right. No one expects you to teach us systems administration, and only a doofus would buy this book to learn about Ruby.

The audience, as misleading implied by the title, is system administrations and developers who would like to use Ruby for more than just development tasks.

It is a great travesty that this book has been written, thus filling a niche which will cause others to not publish a proper book on the use of Ruby vis-a-viz systems administration tasks.

We need a Ruby book which helps systems administrators with sysadmin tasks, which include, but are not limited to:

1. File management
2. User/Account/Disk management
3. Password sync and environment refreshes from Production to Dev environments
4. automation of daily admin and (also DBA tasks)

These types of things are SHAMEFULLY missing from this book which claims to be on that very subject.

Sorry. This gets a BIG F.A.I.L from me.

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