From: ReggW Date: 2006-06-06T04:44:43+09:00 Subject: Re: I love Ruby - But how bright is Ruby's Future? Austin Ziegler wrote: > On 6/5/06, ReggW wrote: >> It wasn't the tool that failed, but the framework (and of course >> Borland had a lot to do with that). > > Um. Has the framework failed, or is it now just that the vendor support > for the tool and framework gone away? > What's the difference. Once you have coded to a framework, your code will only work with that framework. So once the support for the framework goes away, you are now stuck in a never progressing environment. That's is why you can't just "jump" into any language just because you like it. Unless you are only doing it as a hobby or working for yourself. > >> This could be resolved with a out-of-the-box ODBC/JDBC driver as part >> of the different type of databases supported. > > No, it can't. Why can't it? Because if people don't *need* such a > driver, they're not going to *develop* such a driver. I'm sure that the > Rails team would be happy to add other drivers (if there aren't plugin- > hooks for use with RubyGems for such drivers, which is even more > sensible), but it has to be developed first. That's why you talk to the > database vendor and say "You should really look at this Rails thing." > Maybe get *them* to develop the driver for you. > Here is a list of Drivers that people *need* for Rails... http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/DatabaseDrivers Approx. 90% of these would go away if they implemented ODBC. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.