From: Tony De <tony@...>
Date: 2007-10-22T10:42:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Is Ruby For Me?

Bravo!!  What a phenomenal response people.  You all have given me some 
valid points to consider.  I never thought about my code visibility.  I 
am encouraged by the possibility to develop both general and browser 
based apps.  I am not familiar with GTK, Glade, Java (as much as I hate 
to admit it), or or most scripting languages.  I came from basic to C, 
xbase (i.e. dbase.x, clipper, FoxPro) then to Delphi 2-7 and Visual 
Basic 6.  And accomplished all of my local & network database 
development using Access, SQLite, and MySQL.  So I have a little anxiety 
about Ruby given it's differences.  Perhaps it's more of the "I know 
what I can accomplish in my comfort zone of Delphi and VCL's both 3rd 
Party and home grown, and how fast I can accomplish it, but how long 
will my learning curve be to accomplish the same in Ruby" dilemma.  I 
guess only digging in will answer that question.

Let me pose another question.

I'm about to embark on a project that will tie into a companies 
quickbooks data to provide automated transactions based on business 
process managed by my software and in which Quickbooks is not 
able/suited.

I have the QBSDK and am working with it.  Does anyone know if and if so, 
how one would take advantage of the Quickbooks API from Ruby?

TonyDM

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