Re: Getting a pulse for Ruby On Rails on i

[Pete Helgren <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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
www.petesworkshop.com
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
> www.MowYourLawn.com/blog
> www.OpenRPGUI.com
> www.SoftwareSavesLives.com