One of the things that separates Moonshine from other solutions like Chef and Sprinkle is that out of the box, Moonshine comes with recipes for the same Ubuntu/Ruby Enterprise Edition/Apache/Passenger/MySQL stack that’s in production use at Rails Machine.

We’re pretty excited about this, for multiple reasons.  It’s another Ruby company developing in and around Puppet, and it’s a great, simple way for Rails developers to take advantage of both Puppet and the RailsMachine stack.

The next step is to get the ShadowPuppet pure Ruby interface imported into Puppet.  It will complement the existing language rather than replacing it, but we haven’t really settled all of the details yet.

Unfortunately, we could not travel to Japan to receive the award in person, but I was able to give a talk via Skype the night of the award ceremony.  It was around 2am my time on a day I’d traveled with my wife and twins, so it was a long day, but it was worth it.  I only hope my talk was worth anything.

Andrew did all of the hard work around getting the submission in and organizing the talk itself, so I definitely have him to thank for that.

Now I just need to figure out how to get my bank to accept those postal money orders from Japan.