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jrockway
A little late, though, as most of the "Enterprise" frameworks have started to shun XML configuration.
bdotdub
er i'm pretty sure this rubygem is poking fun at the "enterprise" and not a really for the enterprise
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dusklight
anyone who needs the above hint is clearly a true blue "enterprise" person.
jrockway
What I'm saying is that this would have been funny 3 years ago.
j_baker
He's right. It sounds to me like enterprise ruby needs more business analysis integration features for data mining and warehousing.
stcredzero
The same thing happened to VisualWorks Smalltalk years ago. We reimplemented the "change log" to use XML, so we'd be buzzword compliant. Functionality gain: none. Result: embarrassing bugs in Smalltalk training class when I was demoing how you don't lose code even if your image crashes.

(We broke a very cool feature that had been working for decades, which is core to developers, just to be buzzword compliant!)

eugenejen
So did the new feature break the object reflection inside smalltalk image? I like to hear more details about this.
stcredzero
Nope. There was just a bug that broke the re-reading of the change log. It was fixed pretty quickly. But not before I had a chance to show a bunch of Smalltalk students VisualWorks flailing.
adammarkey
As we all know, XML is just another word for Productivity! One less thing to compile and throw those pesky errors before we put it straight into production.

I can't wait to show this to the IT guys... if they ever get back from their 4 hour lunch break.

Awesome mullet BTW!

jmhodges
I think I enjoyed this the most:

"I’m sure you’re asking yourself, 'how much does this enterprise solution cost me?'. Well, like any good enterprise system, it is insanely expensive. This gem will cost you eleventy billion dollars payable to me, now."

pelle
According to my calculations a good enterprise solution costing eleventy billion dollars would require a fourty billion dollars annual support contract.
j_baker
Don't forget a 90 billion dollar custom code fee!
jeremychone
Cannot wait for the same thing for JavaScript.
rleisti
What I'd really like, is a way to express xml in xml, so I can be super-productive all day long recursively writing a single xml document.
ewiethoff
You want XSLT. ;-)
prodigal_erik
XPath is far too concise. It needs an XML encoding. Something like PMML, where math looks like

  <DefineFunction name="frob" optype="continuous"> 
    <ParameterField name="x" optype="continuous"/> 
    <Apply function="+">
      <FieldRef field="x"/>
      <Constant>42</Constant>
    </Apply>
  </DefineFunction>
I wish I were joking.
j_baker
I think you'd also need a way to express that xml xml using xml as well.
lnguyen
I'm sorry... it's not ready for the enterprise until there's a code generator that will automatically create the XML based on some existing COBOL code.
netghost
That's kind of funny, I actually just finished building a tool that lets you perform queries against the ruby AST. You can pattern match and process S-Expressions. It still needs a bit of polish, but it's pretty neat.

Check it out, SexpPath: https://github.com/adamsanderson/sexp_path/tree

zenspider
HOLY SHIT! YAY!

I knew if I just waited long enough someone would finish this off for me! Wonderful!

What do you think about folding this into sexp_processor?

I should prolly actually ask this on github. I only read ycombinator for the enterprise post. :)

netghost
Send me an email or drop me a line on github.
cubicle67
There's also acts_as_enterprisey, which has been around for a while now http://github.com/airblade/acts_as_enterprisey/tree/master

From the site:

Rails make life easy for us but -- and it's a big but -- we don't want it to look easy. acts_as_enterprisey is your friend.

How does acts_as_enterprisey make webapp development look hard? Well, the only way your client can judge your app is by playing around with it. What better gives the feeling of heavy weights being lifted behind the scenes than slow response times? Exactly. That's what acts_as_enterprisey does.

So while your client clicks, ...waits..., and then gets the page, you can blather on heroically about wrestling with clustered indexes, cache expiration strategies, n log n seek times, etc ad nauseam.

JVeinbergs
It looks like a joke.

Why bother HN readers?

doki_pen
I don't trust this software much. Most enterprise software I've dealt with requires at least two paid consultants to install and configure. "gem install enterprise" ? Are you kidding? This is kids stuff. A few other concerns:

* No rea (Ruby Enterprise Application) objects? How do I package my software in to one file that I can upload through the enterprise application manager?

* Speaking of which, where is the enterprise application manager? I expect a buggy web app that only works on ie6 and requires 10+ activeX components.

This is a step in the right direction, but there is a long way to go.