From: no@...4me.com
Date: 2003-03-07T23:35:44+09:00
Subject: Re: We are in the starting gate....

Hello: 

OK, that's enough to get me off and running.  Thanks again. 

Steve. 


On Fri, 07 Mar 2003 00:04:18 GMT, gabriele renzi
<surrender_it@remove.yahoo.it> wrote:

>il Thu, 06 Mar 2003 17:56:50 -0500, no@spam4me.com ha scritto::
>
>>Hello: 
>
>hi!
>
>>#1 Is Ruby a good choice for a general porpose langarge that can build
>>stand alone apps under Windows? 
>
>I think so, you could use winapi, ole, and lots of other stuff.
>
>
>>#2 I may be off the web but I still gotta have my data, does Ruby
>>support ODBC or some other way to connect to SQL server or an access
>>database? 
>
>ruby-DBI is a common interface to many database:
>ADO, ODBC , DB2 , InterBase , MySQL , Oracle , PostgreSQL , etc
>
>>What are your top two "most helpful" web sites for working with
>>Ruby. 
>
>
>I think http://www.rubygarden.org/ is the most useful, with 
>raa.ruby-lang.org. 
>
>And this newsgroup/mailing list could solve all the problems you could
>have.
>The ruby community is *wonderful* 
>
>>Thanks for any Input. 
>>Steve. 
>
>np