# Windows System Administration: State of the Art

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/windows-system-administration-state-of-the-art/130252>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 26, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/windows-system-administration-state-of-the-art/130252 "2008-02-26T19:46:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Krishna\_Kirti\_Das](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Krishna\_Kirti\_Das](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Krishna_Kirti_Das)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/windows-system-administration-state-of-the-art/130252/1 "2008-02-26T19:46:53Z")

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I am a long-time user of Perl user who is evaluating different  
scripting languages for use as a scripting platform for system  
administrators on the Windows platform. Perl already has many modules  
that allow sys admins and devolpers to do lots of things with the  
Windows OS, and I’m wondering what the state of the art is with Ruby  
and being able to control a windows environment. In this regard, how  
does Ruby stand up against Perl?

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**Author:** ![Krishna\_Kirti\_Das](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Krishna\_Kirti\_Das](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Krishna_Kirti_Das)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/windows-system-administration-state-of-the-art/130252/2 "2008-02-26T20:22:51Z")

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On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Krishna Kirti Das  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> I am a long-time user of Perl user who is evaluating different  
> scripting languages for use as a scripting platform for system  
> administrators on the Windows platform. Perl already has many modules  
> that allow sys admins and devolpers to do lots of things with the  
> Windows OS, and I’m wondering what the state of the art is with Ruby  
> and being able to control a windows environment. In this regard, how  
> does Ruby stand up against Perl?

No idea, but I’ve had some nice experience using PowerShell from  
Microsoft.

[http://www.microsoft.com/powershell](http://www.microsoft.com/powershell)

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**Author:** ![Krishna\_Kirti\_Das](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Krishna\_Kirti\_Das](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Krishna_Kirti_Das)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 9:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/windows-system-administration-state-of-the-art/130252/3 "2008-02-27T09:05:34Z")

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On 26.02.2008 19:43, Krishna Kirti Das wrote:

> I am a long-time user of Perl user who is evaluating different  
> scripting languages for use as a scripting platform for system  
> administrators on the Windows platform. Perl already has many modules  
> that allow sys admins and devolpers to do lots of things with the  
> Windows OS, and I’m wondering what the state of the art is with Ruby  
> and being able to control a windows environment. In this regard, how  
> does Ruby stand up against Perl?

There is WinOLE32 which gives you access to pretty much everything  
around. And there is [http://www.ironruby.net/](http://www.ironruby.net/) which lets my guess that  
Windows integration will become better rather than worse over time.  
Disclaimer: I don’t use Ruby for Win administration.

Kind regards

robert