I think that Perl has a richer library of Windows functions available by
virtue of the fact that it’s been around longer. However, Ruby’s
WIN32OLE and WIN32API libraries allow you to do most of the common
Windows system admin tasks easily. WIN32OLE provides nice interfaces to
ADSI, WMI, ADO and all the Office applications. The win32 gems that
come standard with the Windows One-Click Installer for Ruby provide easy
access to the file system, clipboard, event logs, process and services.
If you want to web enable your scripts, Ruby is way easier. I’m a
Windows system administrator and I’ve pretty much quit using Perl since
I discovered Ruby. I haven’t found any scripts at the MS Script
Repository that I haven’t been able to translate to Ruby so far. I like
Perl a lot, but I have more fun programming in Ruby.
If you decide to try Ruby, you’ll find
http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.com/ to be very helpful.
Good luck.
– Mike
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From: “J-H Johansen” [email protected]