Re: Ruby on Rails on i site back up -- WEB400

Personally, the RPG approach that Aaron is pursuing seems to have the most

logical promise for RPG'ers but some folks (like me) that have a natural
curiosity about stuff like this might find it interesting

In the same breath I would say that any RPG programmer that hasn't pursued
other things like Rails/Java/PHP is probably missing out on a lot. A lot of
my inspiration for RPGUI came from JSF (JavaServer Faces). It was by
pursuing other languages/frameworks that I discovered the great features we
have in RPG, and also the things we are missing.

I have officially added Rails On i to my TODO list of things to check out
:-) Thanks for keeping this alive Pete.

Aaron Bartell
www.SoftwareSavesLives.com

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have been juggling a couple of initiatives of running Ruby on IBM i.
JRuby has released their latest version and when combined with the
latest Rails it is pretty stable and productive. Although the site is
running the JRuby interpreter because of the ease in which it makes the
database connection work, I am working with a developer in Italy and an
IBM contact to get a "native" (read: PASE) version of Ruby running on i
as well.

Why would you want to consider Ruby, instead of something like PHP or
CGIDEV or even something like RPGUI initiative that Aaron is
supporting? Well, for someone who is a dyed in the wool RPG'er, there
probably is more learning curve in mastering Ruby than the typical RPG
developer would want to bite off and chew, so it may not be a good fit.
However, if you are looking at web development, want to learn a new
language, want to get up and running quickly with web application in a
productive environment that is open source, then this might be something
you could consider. Also, if you are a web development shop looking at
hiring new web developers, you can add this to your bag of tricks.

Personally, the RPG approach that Aaron is pursuing seems to have the
most logical promise for RPG'ers but some folks (like me) that have a
natural curiosity about stuff like this might find it interesting

I don't plan to debate the relative merits of PHP vs Rails, nor do I
think Rails is the "answer" for all web development, but there is always
value in adding yet another proven technology to the IBM i arsenal, so I
post it here for the curious, if nothing else.

Right now the warm up is lengthly due to the web server I am using, and
it will occasionally throw a 'nil' error because of the slowness of the
server but I'll move it under Apache in the next few days where it
should perform better.

http:\\www.railsoni.com If you have any interest.

Pete

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