# OT: Wish I were coding in Ruby **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [July 28, 2006, 12:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-wish-i-were-coding-in-ruby/100250 "2006-07-28T00:22:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gregarican](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/7feea3/32.png) [@gregarican](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gregarican)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 12:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-wish-i-were-coding-in-ruby/100250/1 "2006-07-28T00:22:11Z")
instead of wearing my other hat. As network admin I am forced to (finally) migrate my company from a Windows NT 4.0/Exchange 5.5 domain to a Windows/Exchange 2003 server AD. My CFO didn’t like the idea that we will finally have to buy into the software subscription model Microsoft adopted either. God, I wish I was coding in Ruby right now 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gregarican](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/7feea3/32.png) [@gregarican](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gregarican)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 12:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-wish-i-were-coding-in-ruby/100250/2 "2006-07-28T00:37:45Z")
Greg, I’m sorry that you are stuck doing boring work right now. There are a lot of real-world tasks that are boring. Some people have jobs where they do all of the interesting work and have the boring work done for them. Network admin definitely isn’t one of them ☹ Of course, there are clever ways to make boring work interesting, but alas, it’s not always possible. What I usually do in that instance is do boring work for 45 minutes, do interesting work for 10 minutes, and then take a 5 minute break. It keeps the mind from going numb. 🙂 Best of luck to you getting the migration done as quickly as possible, so you can start working on more interesting things! Ben ---
**Author:** ![gregarican](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/7feea3/32.png) [@gregarican](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gregarican)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 12:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-wish-i-were-coding-in-ruby/100250/3 "2006-07-28T00:56:34Z")
Ruby talks COM really nicely… -Brian ---
**Author:** ![gregarican](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/7feea3/32.png) [@gregarican](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gregarican)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 1:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-wish-i-were-coding-in-ruby/100250/4 "2006-07-28T01:06:10Z")
True. I also have thrown together some things that perform tasks such as push/pull Exchange CDO information, talk to the NT SAM database, retrieve file sharing details, etc. Perhaps I can utilize Ruby to automate some of the migration command line utils that Microsoft has for migration. Although I have had to support Microsoft networking OS’es going back to NT 3.51 I still dislike them to one degree or another. Like when reading some knowledge base article they have detailing a known “needle in a haystack” issue that isn’t/won’t be addressed. From years and years ago nonetheless. I like wearing my other hat as in-house app developer a lot better. At least then I have more control over the bug reports… ---
**Author:** ![gregarican](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/7feea3/32.png) [@gregarican](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gregarican)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 5:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-wish-i-were-coding-in-ruby/100250/5 "2006-07-28T05:15:36Z")
Yea, huh, that does sound boring. Fortunately I have a pretty interesting software dev job. And while I am being moved off of my usual Linux job for a bit, I will be developing for the Macintosh. In fact I am getting ready to cut a PO for a couple of Macintosh’s I will be needing. I guess I shouldn’t rub that in though ;0) ---
**Author:** ![gregarican](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/7feea3/32.png) [@gregarican](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gregarican)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 6:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-wish-i-were-coding-in-ruby/100250/6 "2006-07-28T06:01:51Z")
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, gregarican wrote: > instead of wearing my other hat. As network admin I am forced to > (finally) migrate my company from a Windows NT 4.0/Exchange 5.5 domain > to a Windows/Exchange 2003 server AD. My CFO didn’t like the idea that > we will finally have to buy into the software subscription model > Microsoft adopted either. > > God, I wish I was coding in Ruby right now 🙂 i’m preparing to migrate 30 satellite years of data from one archive to another, with some munging in between. it’s a process that will run for months. even though it’s i ruby, it’s sheer agony. maybe that makes you feel better. -a ---
**Author:** ![gregarican](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/7feea3/32.png) [@gregarican](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gregarican)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 2:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-wish-i-were-coding-in-ruby/100250/7 "2006-07-28T14:46:04Z")
On 7/28/06, gregarican [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > we will finally have to buy into the software subscription model > > > -a > > > – > > > we can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with > > > ourselves. > > > > - h.h. the 14th dali lama Both of you you have all my sympathie, but just an idea for the future, if we really feel bad and need to talk to nice persons (that was the reason you chose the list, right 😉 let us put something like [PAD] into the title. PAD like I really need shoulder padding 😉 Robert – Deux choses sont infinies : l’univers et la bêtise humaine ; en ce qui concerne l’univers, je n’en ai pas acquis la certitude absolue. - Albert Einstein ---
**Author:** ![gregarican](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/7feea3/32.png) [@gregarican](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gregarican)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 2:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-wish-i-were-coding-in-ruby/100250/8 "2006-07-28T14:38:43Z")
That does sound like quite an operation. Everyone has their cross to bear I suppose. How much easier was the task implemented using Ruby?