From: Rick Fiorentino <rfiorentino@...>
Date: 2009-01-27T01:23:17+09:00
Subject: Re: minimal ruby install


> just did a quick grep and rails depends on around 45 libraries from
> stdlib and pretty much every byte of ruby core (which is why it's a
> nice testcase for new ruby implementations), are you sure you don't
> want to go for something more lightweight?
> 
> ^ manveru

Right...good question. At a minimum I need to support DB access and 
remote connectivity on the thin clients or embedded systems. The remote 
connectivity can be me writing a multi-threaded server and processing 
commands in a web service-ish way or including a lightweight HTTP server 
if practical. The DB access could be DBI based stuff as well versus 
using Active Record.

So one approach is compiling Ruby I suppose for each platform required, 
including a minimal set of libs etc.

I am really looking for input to see what I am getting myself involved 
in. It may be that using Ruby for this implementation is not ideal.

I would certainly consider different technologies, I am involved with 
Ruby right now an was curious if it is practical.

Thanks for the input,
Rick
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