From: chiaro scuro <kiaroskuro@...>
Date: 2006-04-12T09:55:12+09:00
Subject: Re: vba --> ruby: tool, parse or assimilation?

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On 4/12/06, David Vallner <david@vallner.net> wrote:
>
> > I find excel to be a very agile way platform to prototype apps, but
> after a
> > couple of weeks of development it always runs out of options.
> >
>
> Ye gods. Chiaro, meet Rails. Rails, meet Chiaro. I'm sure you'll be the
> best
> of friends once you get to know each other ;P An agile platform to
> prototype
> apps (and then some) that I've yet to come to the end of options of.
> </fanboy>


:-) of course, of course, we all love rails. It depends on what you are
prototyping, though. rails is fantastic for the web app domain. other
domains have different needs.

the good thing about excel is that you can get the user very actively and
personally involved in designing the application on many levels.  The degre=
e
of flexibility and reuse however is very low, as you would expect.

if you are prototyping financial apps, using excel+vba can boost your
productivity at least ten times compared to java/ruby/whatever.  This is a
short term gain, but still very powerful.  If you need flexibility and
abstraction excel takes you only so far, then you have to switch language.
I am trying to convert vb to ruby automatically to make the switch easier
and get the best of both worlds at different stages of development.



> Isn't there ActiveScriptRuby for that? Never actually tried it, just
> hearsay.
>

Thanks David, this looks *very* promising.  I'll check it out.


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