From: gregarican <greg.kujawa@...>
Date: 2006-10-21T12:35:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Is anyone using Ruby for 24/7 financial applications?

Where I work I have about a dozen Ruby scripts running as scheduled
jobs that interface with the accounting/finance environment. The only
reason I've ever had to restart the jobs is due to a server
configuration spec I needed to update in the scripts. Other than that,
rock solid. The only thing I've noticed (likely due to coding
incompetence on my part) is I have some syslog monitoring scripts that
over time consume lots of RAM. After a couple of weeks I see that they
are getting a bit out of hand. But nothing leading to downtime, host
resource issues, etc.

So far I have been able to leverage Ruby to offer a GUI employee survey
app, a Rails order management app, a mobile CRM app, and tons of admin
scripts that make my job so much easier. Since that's the primary
language here there is some consistency and standardization.

Jamey Cribbs wrote:
> 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