Rackspace releases CLI for managing cloud via Ruby

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67 points·bdcravens··11 comments

I haven't used it much but fog seems to be a nice gem that can manage not just Rackspace clouds but AWS and Digital Ocean too I believe (and perhaps more).

fog doesn't seem to be a CLI. Tugboat (by Jack Pearkes) is a very good CLI for managing DigitalOcean services.

That is true but the one time I used it directly(rather than as a dependency of another library) I used it interactively from the Ruby repl.

I'm wondering why they started MVCLI instead of using Thor - https://github.com/erikhuda/thor

MVCLI has an amazing README.

Looks similar to the brightbox CLi - http://docs.brightbox.com/guides/cli/

What does "via Ruby" mean here? Title should probably not include that.

I think it means it's a ruby gem you install to manage your cloud environment. Technically you would be using a ruby gem via the command line. I suppose it could just say "via command line" but I don't see it as incorrect in its current state.

I think it's related to the fact that they're actually announcing two projects:

* rumm, a CLI for managing Rackspace Cloud. * MVCLI, a Ruby framework for writing CLI apps (on which rumm is built).

It's a bit confusing how the rumm website is pushing both projects, whence I assume the title confusion derives.

You're right - they announced it at LoneStarRuby Conf, and I'm at the conference, so I have Ruby on the mind :-)

Wow. Welcome to 2009.

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