From: Ed Reed <joebananas10@...>
Date: 2010-10-07T06:14:27+09:00
Subject: Re: ODBC app in Ruby - I don't believe it.

Thanks for the extensive reply Dave. I certainly appreciate it.

I spent a lot of time last night looking at all the pieces that need to 
be 'snapped together' to get, what I think should be, a simple db cgi 
app to work and I just can't figure out how it can be worth it. I 
appreciate your's and everyone else's sentiments but I need to create a 
working project that is stable and supportable. It needs to work with 
databases where a Ruby api will never exist for them, because they're 
not mainstream enough. I would like to test it against other more 
mainstream dbs though, so a project like dbi with odbc seems 
appropriate. But, I also need to be sure, when the client comes to me 
after only six months needing an update, that one of those 'snapins' 
isn't gonna be considered a 'dead project'. I don't see how people can 
work like this. It's unacceptable to say that Windows is a difficult 
development platform. Over 90% of all businesses are small businesses 
and most small businesses don't have the budget or knowledge to setup 
and maintain a linux backend. I don't wanna get into an OS war here, 
there's no point to it. Small businesses use Windows, period. 90% is a 
number that is too huge to ignore.

I will do as you suggest and explain what I'm trying to do instead of 
talking about what I've done and maybe I'll get some suggestions. At 
this moment though, I think Ruby and I are a 'dead project'

Thanks again to everyone.
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