Orbited needs to have its client API ported to many languages. No one was stepping up to do this. So, despite a complete lack of Ruby experience (none of us have any Ruby experience as far as I know), I spent a few hours porting the Python simple client to Ruby. It was surprisingly straight-forward. The code undoubtedly looks like Python code, but that’s alright. It only has to work (It does what it is supposed to do from IRB anyway), it doesn’t need to look pretty; the first Ruby user who wants to use Orbited for real work will undoubtedly fix it up.

With Ruby down, only Perl, Java, PHP, and .NET are left, of our top priority languages. That means we’ve done 1/3 of our target client libraries! Feel free to pitch in a port to your favorite language; with moderate experience in the language, the port shouldn’t take more than an hour or two.

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