Brian Candler
3/26/2007 6:56:00 PM
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 03:26:04AM +0900, longinos wrote:
> can ruby be used to make an inventory and administration program,to run
> locally with no internet conection?
This is rather like asking "can I write programs in Ruby?" The answer is
"Yes".
Collect the data you want, store it in an inventory, and display it.
> can it be done with ruby on rails?
Yes. Rails is a nice framework for building database applications with web
user interfaces. You don't need an Internet connection; just point your
browser at http://localhost:3000/ or whatever.
You might want a separate program which runs by itself to collect data (e.g.
periodically, rather than in response to a HTTP request), but it can still
use the ActiveRecord to access the underlying database.
> or it can only be done in ruby ?
You can do it without Rails if you wish. You can process web requests and
HTML generation yourself; or you can build a non-web application using a GUI
toolkit (Tk, Fox, Gtk, Qt, ...lots to choose from).
Brian.