From: Jamey Cribbs <jcribbs@...>
Date: 2006-10-19T10:19:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Is anyone using Ruby for 24/7 financial applications?

John Baylor wrote:
> I know a lot of people are using ruby on rails for web apps, usually with
> Apache as the underlying app, but I don't know of anyone using ruby 
> itself
> for a 24/7 application.  Yes, some people are using webrick as their web
> server but they don't necessarily lose $$$ if their personal web site 
> goes
> down.
>
> I'm trying to talk my company into using ruby in a remote environment (a
> merchant's store) where it has to be solidly up 24/7 or the merchant will
> stop using our product.  We should be able to SSH to the box if we 
> need to
> but we'd rather not need to.  While I have confidence that ruby can 
> run in
> that environment, management would like to hear that someone else is 
> already
> using it for a similar purpose.  Are they?
What part of Ruby needs to be up 24/7?  Webrick?  Or is it just a ruby 
script that needs to run correctly all the time?

I don't work in Finance, but I have dozens of Ruby scripts, and apps 
that run at my company throughout the day.

Speaking of webrick, I have a small client/server Windows-gui database 
app written completely in ruby and ruby-gtk (everything is written in 
ruby:  gui-frontend, backend logic, even the dbms) and, except for about 
5 minutes of scheduled downtime every morning to compress the database, 
it runs 24/7 and has been for several months.  It uses webrick for it's 
client-server communications.

HTH,

Jamey Cribbs