Re: Ruby On Rails on the iSeries

I more meant that EGL is filling the shoes Net.Data left.  By that I mean it
is IBM's next attempt at a high level framework implementation that gets
people who don't have time to learn Java up and running relatively fast.
With that said I remember very little about the language/framework - I just
remember my opinion at the time :-)

I didn't mean to compare the two functionality wise - for that I am not
qualified. Sorry 'bout that.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
 

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Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 1:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [WEB400] Ruby On Rails on the iSeries

Not that I have a strong opinion on EGL one way or the other (I've played
with it a little, don't really have much time), but I don't know that I'd
call it the next Net.Data.  IBM is working hard to migrate their Informix
4GL users over to it.  If they are successful, then EGL will have a decent
sized user base.

Mike E.

On 8/14/06, albartell <albartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I took a class in it at iSeries DevCon two years ago.  IMO, EGL is the 
next Net.Data and will most likely die the same death.  How many of 
you Net.Data people that are vested are appreciating IBM's decision to

drop it?

 Aaron Bartell

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On Behalf Of Brian
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 1:37 PM
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Subject: Re: [WEB400] Ruby On Rails on the iSeries

Natthan, et al

Have you looked at IBM's EGL that is included in the WDSCi product? I 
have only began working through the EGL tutorial but since you 
mentioned WebSmart I thought this might be an alternative. As it is, 
EGL will generate Java or Cobol code to implement the full application 
but what got me interested is that it appears you can use EGL for 
developing the view and the controller and hook it to RPG on the 
backend via the JT400 toolbox for implementing the model. IBM held an 
EGL user's conference recently that had a session on EGL and RPG but I 
wasn't able to attend and have not been able to find the handouts from the

session.

If anyone has worked with EGL and has opinions as to its viability for 
developing web apps on the iSeries I would like to hear them.

Kind regards,

Brian


On 8/11/06, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The name "Ruby on  Rails" is quite appropriate, IMO.  Ruby could 
have been just another OO language  that faded into oblivion - like 
SmallTalk.  But, add a database interface, an  HTTP interface, 
scripts for generating shells for basic Web applications,  following 
a model/view/controller design pattern, and license everything under 
open source - it's like putting a language on "rails", where it can 
go

places,  so to speak.

The part that  interests me the most at the moment is the idea of 
using scripts and  templates to generate basic Web components.  One 
of my colleagues created a utility  for running CL source members 
interpretively, as opposed to compiling CL source  members into 
programs.  We use it to automate the process of compiling, binding, 
and building ILE applications, which generally consist of a number 
of

modules  and service programs.

One idea we've  discussed is using CL scripts for generating HTML 
and RPG source members,  providing a shell for basic Web 
applications, following a model/view/controller  design pattern, 
given just a few parameters like the name of the application and  
the table or view that

needs to be maintained.

A tool like  Websmart generates HTML and RPG source members for Web 
applications, but  requires significant training and understanding 
of a proprietary scripting  language, logic constructs, and a 
Windows based GUI editor and design tool to be  proficient.

If you already  know RPG, you may not want to learn an additional 
higher-level scripting  language, just to generate RPG code.  And 
you may not want  to go back to a Windows based tool to maintain the 
application, and regenerate  the RPG code.  What if you could just 
edit a CL source member, and run a command  to generate HTML and RPG 
source members, providing shells for basic Web  applications?

It's just an  idea.  Another approach we've discussed is having a 
Wizard, providing step by  step prompts, at the conclusion of which, 
a set of HTML and RPG source members  would be generated.

It looks like Ruby  on Rails takes more of a command line approach, 
which is  interesting.

Perhaps PASE and a toolkit  for system interfaces, similar to what 
Zend did for PHP, would be the  key to porting Ruby on Rails to the

platform.

Nathan M.  Andelin

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