From: Pieter Kubben <pieter@...>
Date: 2006-09-11T20:11:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Cross-platform standalone Ruby apps ?

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> Trans wrote:
>>> Could Ruby work for this? And what would be the best database to go for?
>> 
> 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.

If I read all the comments, I doubt whether Ruby will be the right 
choice for me. However, I like the initiative, and perhaps it will turn 
out to be very useful in the future.

For now I guess I'd have to focus more on Java, as Python does also not 
seem to deliver what I am looking for...

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