Re: Ruby On Rails on the iSeries

From: Nathan Andelin

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See my point to Aaron.

It's not quite clear to me where Rails fits.  Should it be trusted for a
mission critical application?  A high volume store front?  Large scale
application development?  Those are good questions.

That's right.  And it seems to me that before you spread the word that Rails
is going to knock off J2EE and .NET, you might want to answer those
questions.

If you're a technician doing biological research and working with a team,
recording and analyzing test results in a database, would it be better to
hand the team a Citrix connection and an MS Access database, or use Rails
and MySQL?

If I'm not a professional programmer, there's a real good chance it would be
better to buy a cheap data entry and analysis package.  Could you imagine if
a research study on cancer went awry because a non-programmer cobbled
together something in Ruby and made a mistake?

This trend of designing programming tools to for non-programmers is a little
frightening if you examine it closely.  I mean, there's a REASON why you
can't just mix together your own potions and sell them as patent medicine.

Joe