From: Richard <RichardDummyMailbox58407@...>
Date: 2006-12-22T03:55:24+09:00
Subject: Re: does Ruby generate WINDOWS and dialog boxes?

Hi David,

> > 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.
> >
>
> 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.

Good additional ideas.

As I said to Suraj,  thanks again for your insightful comments.  I
rated this post to be "excellent" as a reflection of all your
contributions to this thread.

I'm going to sign off this thread.  I've got to spend some time
actually *doing* something :-)  I'm making a copy of all the essential
conclusions presented here, which I'll review as my development efforts
proceed.

Best wishes,
Richard