Re: Ruby On Rails on the iSeries

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>]

In his biographical sketch DHH says he's a product of Danish design, and some 
of those Western European countries are known for their liberal language.

In one of the presentations at the Rails site, DHH responded to complaints 
about some things that were left out of the project management application at 
37Signals, which are normally found in project management applications, by 
saying something to the effect "maybe we need to be more clear about the 
design... we didn't want to include those types of features".  He evidently 
came up with an abbreviated expression to answer such concerns.

Regarding the security flaw, would the following help?

http://tinyurl.com/mfz5y


It's not quite clear to me where Rails fits.  Should it be trusted for a 
mission critical application?  A high volume store front?  Large scale 
application development?  Those are good questions.

If you're a technician doing biological research and working with a team, 
recording and analyzing test results in a database, would it be better to hand 
the team a Citrix connection and an MS Access database, or use Rails and MySQL?

Nathan.






----- Original Message ----
From: Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 6:28:57 PM
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Ruby On Rails on the iSeries

> From: Nathan Andelin
>
>  People are  beginning to wonder if Rails will throw J2EE and .aspx
> development on their  respective ears.  I agree that's pretty imaginative.
> How could a few young  programmers, collaborating in an open-source
> environment, challenge some of the  most powerful corporations on earth?

Before actually beatifying the language you might want to take the time to
read about the security flaw of August 6th, and how the Ruby clique handled
it.

This will also introduce you to the inventor of Ruby, the infamous "DHH" (an
example: http://tinyurl.com/nfgxd).  Or read his blog
(http://www.loudthinking.com/).


Then tell me you plan to run your mission critical systems on a tool that
depends on this guy.

Joe