Ruby with LDAP or AD

Question

Hi, Is there a way of deciding and confirming with facts regarding, which is better and easier to integrate with Ruby. LDAP or ActiveDirectory?

Thanks, Ivar

Answer 1

The LDAP bindings for Ruby are pretty decent -- not exactly beautiful, but they work well. And, of course, you can access ActiveDirectory as an LDAP server. I have never tried any ActiveDirectory bindings for Ruby.

Answer 2

ActiveDirectory is an implementation of the LDAP. You can use the RubyLDAP gem to integrate with AD. I am currently using this gem to connect from a RHEL server to a Windows Domain Controller.

gem install ruby-ldap