From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-12-21T15:30:04+09:00
Subject: Re: does Ruby generate WINDOWS and dialog boxes?

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John Wilger wrote:
> /Why/ in the world would you write a web app with RoR to be run locally=

> on several users' machines that connects to one central database? I
> hate to be blunt, but that's just kinda dumb.
>=20
> Considering you already need a central server to run the database on,
> just run the web app from a central server as well. Then all these
> questions about upgrading the app on the users' machines, who should
> run `rake db:migrate`, etc. kinda take care of themselves.
>=20

Load distribution. The only thing you need to ever make scalable is the
database and the access to it, and can run it on a relatively
underpowered machine - and if you play it right, with less bandwidth
requirements too (you only ever transfer resources like images etc.
during a client update, which can be yet optimised by using something
like Jigsaw, or SVN as mentioned for text resources). It's not a common
architecture, but not one without any sense to it whatsoever.

David Vallner


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