On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Chris McMahon cmcmahon@wikimedia.org wrote:
For various reasons, I think the best language for this project is Ruby. I realize that is a controversial choice, and I would like to explain my reasoning. First let me address what I think will be the most serious objections:
** Ruby gems are incompatible with Debian/Ubuntu apt packaging, making it difficult or impossible to maintain Ruby code in production.
You will want to talk to OPs, AFAIK they have desires to not see any more ruby on the cluster, since very little amount of the dev community known it and/or how to maintain.