Re: Ruby On Rails on the iSeries

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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