This article should have the following title: "How Ruby is Beating Python in the Battle for my Soul as System Administration". The summary shows that the person

This article should have the following title: "How Ruby is Beating Python in the Battle for my Soul as System Administration". The summary shows that the person has not been working in a team to manage many components: > Ruby's greatest strength is its amazing flexibility. There is a lot of "magic" in ruby and sometimes it is dark magic. Python intentionally has minimal magic. It's greatest strengths are the best practices it enforces across its community. These practices make Python very readable across different projects; they ensure high quality documentation; they make the standard library kick ass. But the fact is that we sysadmins need flexibility more than we need raw power or consistency. As a sysadmin you insanely need consistency all over the place or you cannot scale. This is in fact why Fabric, Puppet and Chef were created in the first place, to have consistent and automatic ways to deploy on and maintain your systems.