From: Yannick Turgeon <vendredi5h@...>
Date: 2005-09-29T01:16:44+09:00
Subject: Re: General programming strategy

James,

Thanks to reply. I spent a couple hours yesterday to look at WEBrick,
Wee, Og. Main Nitro webpage was down and it seems I couldn't find good
information elsewhere. I'm really impressed with these. What an
abstraction all this is! I did knew Rails. Not very much though. But
enough to be aware of all the power "under".

It seems that I could use this in the former project. Wee and Webrick
are keeping state which is a big advantage in my situation. Rails
particularity of "convention over configuration" prevent me to use it
because current tables aren't respecting Rail's convention. I would
have try to partially and progressively use it as front-end. Maybe
Nitro would be good for me in that sens? Is it a MVC too? I'll take a
look when the site will be up again.

> As an alternative to this, you can attach a Ruby script to the running
> Access application using WIN32OLE - I think that might be easier. That would
> allow you to essentially add functionality to your application in Ruby
> instead of VBA.

Dave,

I'm not sure how you see things using WIN32OLE. Wouldn't be Access that
should embed Ruby instead of Ruby embedding Access? How would you apply
that to my situation?

Thanks all for your time.

Yannick