From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-03-27T03:56:00+09:00
Subject: Re: local network

On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 03:26:04AM +0900, longinos wrote:
> can ruby be used to make an inventory and administration program,to run
> locally with no internet conection?

This is rather like asking "can I write programs in Ruby?" The answer is
"Yes".

Collect the data you want, store it in an inventory, and display it.

> can it be done with ruby on rails?

Yes. Rails is a nice framework for building database applications with web
user interfaces. You don't need an Internet connection; just point your
browser at http://localhost:3000/ or whatever.

You might want a separate program which runs by itself to collect data (e.g.
periodically, rather than in response to a HTTP request), but it can still
use the ActiveRecord to access the underlying database.

> or it can only be done in ruby ?

You can do it without Rails if you wish. You can process web requests and
HTML generation yourself; or you can build a non-web application using a GUI
toolkit (Tk, Fox, Gtk, Qt, ...lots to choose from).

Brian.