From: Mike Stephens <rubfor@...>
Date: 2009-06-28T18:42:38+09:00
Subject: Re: How ruby can solve this:network programming

Firstly this seems like a political rather than technical problem. Get 
the firewall changes made and you need to do nothing else.

After that Option a) is to change the Rails application so that the 
dashboard functionality is presented as a web service. I would imagine 
Rails can be used to do that - it seems quite a comprehensive framework 
from what I've seen of it. You can then call that service from a 
Rails(?) app on your IIS server.

Option b) is to use the IIS server to script the Rails apps. You can use 
raw HTML or a browser (eg Watir).
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