This essentially reduces to "it's easier to write a fluent, readable, flexible and powerful DSL in Ruby than it is in Python. Sysadmin tools benefit greatly fr

This essentially reduces to "it's easier to write a fluent, readable, flexible and powerful DSL in Ruby than it is in Python. Sysadmin tools benefit greatly from using such a DSL as their interface vs custom parsers or configuration files. Hence, Ruby is a good choice for these sorts of things.