Re: Ruby on Rails on i site back up

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I have it running under Glassfish now and it seems a bit more responsive 
and stable although I haven't pushed it at all.

Pete


Pete Helgren wrote:
> I have been juggling a couple of initiatives of running Ruby on IBM i.  
> JRuby has released their latest version and when combined with the 
> latest Rails it is pretty stable and productive.  Although the site is 
> running the JRuby interpreter because of the ease in which it makes the 
> database connection work, I am working with a developer in Italy and an 
> IBM contact to get a "native" (read: PASE) version of Ruby running on i 
> as well.
>
> Why would you want to consider Ruby, instead of something like PHP or 
> CGIDEV or even something like RPGUI initiative that Aaron is 
> supporting?  Well, for someone who is a dyed in the wool RPG'er, there 
> probably is more learning curve in mastering Ruby than the typical RPG 
> developer would want to bite off and chew, so it may not be a good fit.  
> However, if you are looking at web development, want to learn a new 
> language, want to get up and running quickly with web application in a 
> productive environment that is open source, then this might be something 
> you could consider.  Also, if you are a web development shop looking at 
> hiring new web developers, you can add this to your bag of tricks.
>
> Personally, the RPG approach that Aaron is pursuing seems to have the 
> most logical promise for RPG'ers but some folks (like me) that have a 
> natural curiosity about stuff like this might find it interesting
>
> I don't plan to debate the relative merits of PHP vs Rails, nor do I 
> think Rails is the "answer" for all web development, but there is always 
> value in adding yet another proven technology to the IBM i arsenal, so I 
> post it here for the curious, if nothing else.
>
> Right now the warm up is lengthly due to the web server I am using, and 
> it will occasionally throw a 'nil' error because of the slowness of the 
> server but I'll move it under Apache in the next few days where it 
> should perform better.
>
> http:\\www.railsoni.com  If you have any interest.
>
> Pete
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