From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-09-10T10:19:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Cross-platform standalone Ruby apps ?

Trans wrote:
> 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)
> 
> 
> 
1. Rails also works with MySQL and SQLite, which in turn work on
Windows, Mac and Linux

2. I don't think *any* recompiling is required to use Ruby on Rails,
though in some cases (Gentoo Linux, for example) you end up recompiling
the Ruby installer and the database in the course of installing them.
But you don't recompile any Rails code.