Re: Getting a pulse for Ruby On Rails on i

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Do you see any inherent benefits in terms of ease-of-use ?

This has a lot to do with it but also the active community surrounding RoR
and the various things they are coming out with (i.e. continuous deployment
and DevOps type things).  I must admit that I am not at a level with RoR to
debate its merits but am more intrigued by it's ability to move forward in
many veins quickly and not just focus on the language and framework but
also on package maintenance/deployment/etc.

At this point my pursuit of RoR on IBMi is largely academic, though my hope
is that we as a community could continue the good work that's already begun
(Pete, Andrea, etc) and get RoR even easier to use on IBMi as a mechanism
to keep IBMi viable for those not yet aware of the platforms benefits.

Aaron Bartell
www.MowYourLawn.com/blog
www.OpenRPGUI.com
www.SoftwareSavesLives.com



On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> My question would be: Why ? :-)
>
> You have RPG, PHP and Java and of course .Net.
>
> Do you see any inherent benefits in terms of ease-of-use ?
>
> Regards,
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> date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:43:38 -0500
> from: Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>
> subject: [WEB400] Getting a pulse for Ruby On Rails on i
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am curious if anybody is running Ruby On Rails on IBMi for any purpose -
> in particular I am curious if anybody has used it in real-world
> applications and not just academic.
>
> I know Pete Helgren has done so in the past.  Here is a thread from 2009
> on that topic: http://archive.midrange.com/web400/200912/msg00132.html And here is the site Pete started:
> http://railsoni.com
>
> There is also this site: http://www.midrange-ruby.com
>
> Here is a database connector though I haven't been able to tell if it
> would work with RoR in PASE: http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyibm/
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron Bartell
> www.MowYourLawn.com/blog
> www.OpenRPGUI.com
> www.SoftwareSavesLives.com
>
>
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