Re: Getting a pulse for Ruby On Rails on i

The DB Connector gem works but you need to purchase the DB2 Connector middleware to talk to DB2 on i (that's why I lean to the JDBC side of things by using JRuby in PASE). Andrea Ribuoli (andrea.ribuoli@xxxxxx) actually has a rudimentary DB2/SQL interface working which is fairly cool. You may want to ping him because he does have IBM i customers and I think most of his development work is oriented to them. I think he is using Sinatra instead of a framework like Rails.

I have talked to one site that actually did use Ruby/Rails in production on i but I don't know the current status and I am not in a position to disclose who they are.

Pete Helgren
Value Added Software, Inc
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GIAC Secure Software Programmer-Java

On 7/31/2012 2:43 PM, Aaron Bartell wrote:

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
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