Re: Ruby on Rails on i site back up

[Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen <ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Pete Helgren skrev:
> The gem requires Java 6 so I am running the 32bit version 
> (/QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdData/JavaVM/jdk60/32bit).
>
> The gem really streamlines everything so outside of the 'gem install 
> glassfish' command I just had to switch to my application folder and 
> then invoke glassfish (glassfish -e production - p 3030).  Couldn't have 
> been easier getting a Rails app deployed.
>
>   
Ah, didn't know that it is supported through a gem.  I thought you 
downloaded and installed glassfish manually.


> The next Rails challenge is to get a rails app running using a legacy 
> database table.  That is, a table that hasn't implemented some 
> simplifying conventions designed for Rails (like a primary key called ID 
> and primary keys that are identity columns).
>   
I think that Rails wants to be in control of the database tables, so 
retrofitting it to existing tables may be  quite a challenge.