From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-05-19T07:23:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows desktop app w/ simple db; how?

On Wed, 19 May 2004, Kirk Haines wrote:

> Imagine that you had a very simple web based application.  It queries some 
> data from a database and displays it in a table.  Several of the data items
> are hyperlinks that pull up some other data from a database table and 
> displays that in a table.  Super simple stuff.
> 
> However, here's my wrinkle.  I need to be able to produce an equivalent 
> application that is not web based, but rather is a standalone application 
> that runs under Windows.
> 
> I know that I can use exerb to package the application for installation on 
> other windows boxes.  I assume that there should be some relatively easy to 
> use widget for Fox or GTK or something that will make emulating the web 
> applications tables with hyperlinks simple to program, though I certainly 
> could use suggestions.  I haven't done any GUI programming with Ruby yet.
> 
> However, does anyone have any suggestions about the database?  There is too 
> much data to use an in-memory store like Madeline, but I don't want the 
> users to have to explicitly install any sort of database engine, either.

i'm using PStore to store up to 50,000 job entries for a distrbuted job
processing system.  it should work and ships with ruby - even 1.6.8.


> 
> 
> Thanks much,
> 
> Kirk Haines
> 
> 
> 
> 

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