From: Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist@...>
Date: 2010-10-12T00:16:31+09:00
Subject: Re: ODBC app in Ruby - I don't believe it.


On Oct 11, 2010, at 10:05 AM, Matthew K. Williams wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Oct 2010, Phillip Gawlowski wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 6:48 PM, David <david@hackbinary.com> wrote:
>>> I was going to suggest to the Windows 7 Developer, that using a virtual box
>>> OSE on top Windows 7, with a Linux Guest OS.
>>> 
>>> Install Ruby and MYSQL on that, happy days.
>> 
>> Since the client wants a Rails app running on Windows, that won't quite work. ;)
>> 
>> --
> 
> One thing I've not seen anyone mention as yet is using jruby for the ruby interpreter.  I've had decent luck using it under windows.  And the jdbc connectors are pretty good, too.
> 

I use JRuby almost exclusively under Windows. One of the great benefits is that it supports 64-bit runtimes whereas MRI does not yet have a 64-bit runtime for Windows.

Also, the WIN32OLE stuff is coming to JRuby soon. Check out the projects on github:

http://github.com/enebo/jacob

and

http://github.com/enebo/jrwin32ole

cr