Re: Ruby On Rails on the iSeries -- WEB400

I have been using RoR at home for experimentation, and love the power
and simplicity. The Ruby language is great, but the Rails framework is
what wins it. If only we had such a thing in RPG. When IBM started
talking about a DB2 interface for Rails I thought iSeries, but alas
no. I assume they have their hands full with PHP at the moment, if I
had the time and some C skills I would port it to the iSeries. If
anyone does manage to get it over, I would be keen to test it.

I guess porting it to PASE would be simpler, but as it is in C does
that mean it could be ported to the standard environment?

On 11/08/06, Mike <koldark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

That would be interesting to do. I have heard through others that a simple
web application could be built in just minutes and I believe I have heard it
is gaining ground very quickly on the other web languages. That would be
cool if someone could do a write up on how to install it.

On 8/11/06, albartell <albartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Has anyone setup Ruby On Rails on the iSeries?  I am guessing it could run
> in the PASE environment similar to what Zend is doing with PHP.  Looks
> like
> it is written in C ...
>
> After seeing things like the screencast on the  following page, which
> shows
> a RoR plugin for eclipse, I am even more intrigued to inch towards RoR and
> away from Java for Web UI's. Seems like RoR brings simplicity to Web UI's
> like RPG does to character screen development.
> <http://www.radrails.org/page/documentation>
> http://www.radrails.org/page/documentation
>
> Note that there are projects like JRuby that allow me to make use of
> existing Java libraries I may have:
> http://jruby.codehaus.org/
> http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-07-2006/jw-0717-ruby.html
>
> IBM writes about it here though not concerning the iSeries.
>
> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm-0606dumbill
> /
>
> This person seems to know that you CAN'T make it run on the iSeries.
> http://blogs.missiondata.com/?p=46
>
> Thoughts?
> Aaron Bartell
> http://mowyourlawn.com
> <mailto:aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
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