I'm a little Delphi-centric, and I've only just discovered Ruby on Rails.
It looks like being the next programming language I'm going to adopt
(mostly for fun, but you never know...)

What do you all think about it, and when will DBISAM / ElevateDB have a
direct object-interface to Ruby?



--
Chris

Hi Chris,
Please, put yourself in the wait list.....
we hope to see Dbisam 5 for Delphi before, (.....under the Christmas
tree.......)  

Stefano Monterisi

Chris Erdal wrote:

> What do you all think about it, and when will DBISAM / ElevateDB have
> a direct object-interface to Ruby?
>
>

Not knowing Ruby yet (downloaded it this morning), but as long as it
supports ODBC connections you could use the DBISAM ODBC driver.


-- AJ Marknette

Chris,

<< What do you all think about it, and when will DBISAM / ElevateDB have a
direct object-interface to Ruby? >>

Since ElevateDB is almost pure OO, we expect to port it to various other
environments over time.

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

"Tim Young [Elevate Software]" <timyoung@elevatesoft.com> wrote in
news:D3BD320E-23E8-417E-AB34-BEE04BEAC2FB@news.elevatesoft.com:

> Since ElevateDB is almost pure OO, we expect to port it to various
> other environments over time.
>

good news - and have you had a look at Ruby on Rails yet? It looks too good
to be true...

(so far I've written 5 lines of code in one tutorial and I can already
insert records into a MySQL table of recipes
--
Chris

Chris,

<< good news - and have you had a look at Ruby on Rails yet? It looks too
good to be true... >>

I've looked at it, but haven't actually tried anything with it yet.

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Chris Erdal wrote:
> good news - and have you had a look at Ruby on Rails yet? It looks
> too good to be true...

Isn't it a slow interpreted language? I see there is a YARV (byte-code
compiler), but why isn't there a proper Win32 one? Is it targeted only
at web apps...?

"Dominic Willems" <domus.software@pandora.be> wrote in news:975E23E5-657A-
4A2D-B479-C8F8FD9E0C1B@news.elevatesoft.com:

> Isn't it a slow interpreted language? I see there is a YARV (byte-code
> compiler), but why isn't there a proper Win32 one? Is it targeted only
> at web apps...?
>
>

I'm sorry, I don't yet have a clue. But there's an interesting discussion
about performance here:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_frm/thread/39207507354
3eaee/43a6f11f1d8cebb7?#43a6f11f1d8cebb7

--
Chris

Chris Erdal wrote:
> I'm sorry, I don't yet have a clue.

Aw okay. I was ready to get all enticed, to find out it's just another
scripting language!

Dominic Willems wrote:

> Chris Erdal wrote:
>
>>I'm sorry, I don't yet have a clue.
>
>
> Aw okay. I was ready to get all enticed, to find out it's just another
> scripting language!
>
>

Pretty much all Ajax code is scripted. Ruby I believe uses Java for the
back end. There are other Ajax products that use PHP or any other
language that can generate XML. The only all-in-one product that I found
that isn't scripted is Morfik which uses compiled Pascal (or Basic or
Java?). It currently only supports Firebird but it can also generated
webapps for Windows or Linux. Whether it ever gets out of beta is
anyone's guess. Check it out at www.morfik.com

Sam