From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2006-09-10T10:11:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Cross-platform standalone Ruby apps ?


Pieter Kubben wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new here, experience with PHP and looking for a similar language
> that permits to do cross-platform programming of database driven apps,
> so that they run on Mac OS X, Linux and Windows from one codebase with
> some recompiling.
>
> Preferably relatively easy to distribute.
>
> Could Ruby work for this? And what would be the best database to go for?
>
> (I read about Ruby on Rails, might be a nice addition to my PHP
> knowledge but first I need to know the answer to my question above)
>
> Hope you can help me out!

Database: PostgreSQL
GUI: Web (stand-alone via a webrick servlet)