From: Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@...>
Date: 2010-10-09T07:54:13+09:00
Subject: Re: ODBC app in Ruby - I don't believe it.

On 10/08/2010 05:46 PM, Ed Reed wrote:
> Jeremy Bopp wrote:
>> The development tools provided by the DB vendors *do* work on the
>> platforms they support, including Windows.  However, those particular
>> development tools do *not* include Ruby, Rails, or the gems that
>> interface with those DBs.  Is there something that lead you to believe
>> otherwise?
> 
> It's useless to argue about semantics on this issue in a forum like 
> this. I'm talking about the thirty thousand foot view of things. If a db 
> runs on a particular platform and a development tool runs on a the same 
> platform. I should be able to develop something with that tool and have 
> it run on that platform.
>
> Don't start a flame war because you want to pick at a point. It goes 
> back to what I said earlier, 90% is a number that is too big to ignore. 
> You can shout all you want about the 10% and you may be absolutely right 
> about the 10% but it doesn't change the numbers.

I'm seriously not trying to pick a fight.  Honest.  I'm really curious
what lead you to believe that there is a complete Ruby solution for
these DBs and Windows that had any promise of long term support.  You
seem to have approached this whole effort with the expectation that
there is a large vendor providing some kind of professional solution
akin to .NET from Microsoft when in fact there is no such beast (at
least not yet).

A 30k foot view of things may lead to misunderstandings by itself but so
can poor or misleading documentation and erroneous Internet memes.  If
you can give us an idea of what lead to your misconceptions, maybe we
can try to address those things.  That's all I'm saying.

-Jeremy