Todd Benson
4/20/2008 6:03:00 PM
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Christopher Dicely <cmdicely@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think Ruby is a fine language for what you are proposing. The things I think
> you need to do are (1) choose an existing database system to use as the storage
> backend (PostgreSQL is a good open source option), (2) choose a Ruby database/
> ORM library (ActiveRecord, part of Rails but usable outside of it, is
> pretty popular;
> I'm personally fond of Sequel), and (3) choose a Ruby GUI toolkit (FXRuby would
> be my choice; there is a good book out which covers it well, its
> cross-platform, and
> it should do what you need.)
and (4) make sure you don't distort what is supposed to be good data
from the database (that would be like performing what seems like Ruby
magic on the data, but not ending up with a sound result).
Todd