Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:

I do hate cfengine (probably party due to the way it's set up here), and I do not consider puppet to be a good alternative, mostly because it's "yet another config language" and because it's written in ruby.

Well.... I personally think that puppet being written in Ruby is a plus :-P

However, puppet itself is not Ruby; it is only developed in Ruby. Ruby is also used extensively for the FreeBSD portsupgrade tool and for Ruby on Rails. I suspect its more widely used than most realize, and if I'm not mistaken, Ruby is included in one or more of the standard Red Hat installs.

I must admit that the creation of my first customized Red Hat installation CDROMs was largely done to include Ruby v1.4....