From: Obie Fernandez <obiefernandez@...>
Date: 2006-02-12T13:41:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on AIX?

Thanks everyone for the info. Once my team starts benchmarking (in a
few weeks) I'll try to contribute back whatever info I can.

Cheers,
Obie

On 2/10/06, Victor Reyes <victor.reyes@gmail.com> wrote:
> Obie,
> I have a mixed of Ruby 1.6.7 and Ruby 1.8.2 running in over 75 RS/6000 under
> AIX 4.3.3, AIX 5.2.0 and AIX 5.3.0. I had some issues with the installation,
> but with the help of this great Ruby gang I was able to quickly address my
> issues.
> Although I do some networking (TCP and UDP protocol) with Ruby, I am not an
> experienced Ruby programmer. But the point is that Ruby works just fine and
> I try to use it always in place of the Korn Shell, which is the default
> shell in AIX.
>
> Victor
>
>
> On 2/9/06, Obie Fernandez <obiefernandez@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > We're looking at big IBM hardware running AIX as a potential
> > deployment platform for the big credit card processing Rails and Ruby
> > stuff that my team is currently building. I was wondering if anyone
> > else is running on AIX or knows if Ruby is well-supported on this
> > platform.
> >
> > I googled the subject, but
> >
> > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/3daaf60b012c1921
> > is the only thing I found -- it's not 100% confidence inspiring.
> >
> > It seems like more people out there are running Ruby on Solaris, but
> > the client is indicating that they'd rather host our stuff on the IBM
> > servers rather than Fujitsu.
> >
> > Any advice is appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Obie
> >
> >
>
>