From: Andy Stone <xsltguru@...>
Date: 2004-10-27T13:00:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Server Programming

It's good to hear the war stories.  It seems I have a good one brewing.

My task is complicated by the fact that there is a good amount of
shared code between this client/server app and the web application
itself.  This code is in the form of data objects responsible for
reading/writing to the database as well as representing the entities
of the project.

What I have found interesting about this whole process was stepping
back and reviewing the code architecture after a year of requirement
changes.  Even though great consideration was taken in object design
it appears that the greatest flaw was in packaging.  Don't get me
wrong, the client/server app definitely needs work (hence the reason
this started), but the project as a whole should have been taken into
account when the system was being designed.  It seemed that the focus
was always so granular the big picture was never brought into view. 
Of course, this has been an ugly, ugly (and one more time for
emphasis), ugly project from the beginning.  I'm actually quite amazed
it's been working for so long.

So, now I have a system that requires this repackaging regardless of
going with Ruby or not.  Over the next couple of days I will be doing
just that.  Once I have tested the repackaging, I can then resume the
issue of what to do with this client/server app.

Any recommendations on a JAVA/Ruby interface?  Is that a viable
option?  There are other ways I can handle what I need to maintain
between the java web app and a ruby client/server app,  I was just
curious if someone has come up with a real slick solution.

-andy


On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:54:55 +0900, Bill Guindon <agorilla@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:36:08 +0900, David Ross <dross@code-exec.net> wrote:
> 
> > War stories. I wonder if theres already a page for it on RubyGarden, if
> > not it should be created. I'd love to hear about people who converted
> > program(s) from <that language> to Ruby. It would be interesting and
> > benificial to the community. Also it would encourage more to convert as
> > well.
> 
> Good idea, and it works the other way around also.  atm, I'm taking
> what I've learned from Ruby and bringing some of it to the world of
> Miva.  I've played with this idea for a couple of years, and it's
> finally live, thanks to Ruby.
> 
> The months that I spent learning Ruby are paying off in ways I never
> would have imagined, and without a doubt, it was well worth the time.
> Ruby gave me a new perspective on some old code, and it gave me some
> new tools to generate code for the truly tedious parts of what I'm
> doing.
> 
> In a nutshell, learning Ruby has put the "possible" in "impossible" (a
> reverse of the old joke "they put the "fun" in "dysfunctional").
> 
> --
> Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)
> 
>