Re: Ruby On Rails on the iSeries

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron,

I haven't tried it in PASE but I guess I could give it a whirl.  I could 
add it to my Common presentation next month if I could get it compiled 
to run in PASE.  I'll take a look.

I have tried Ruby on Rails though.  Walked through a tutorial and have 
read up on it a bit.  I bumped into Ruby quite a while ago when I was 
using Datavision as a reporting tool (it uses Ruby for calculations and 
formatting).  Although it seems pretty slick on simple CRUD apps, I did 
not have the time to walk through writing something more robust with it 
(replacing, say, our existing Struts/Jsp/Hibernate stuff with a RoR 
app).  Sometimes the simple tutorials run out of gas when you try 
something more substantial.

If I come across anything, I'll post.

Pete Helgren


albartell 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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