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Ruby on Rails for DB2 Developers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the building-bridges dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ruby on Rails seems to be the new hotness in the world of web development, right up there with Ajax. IBM DeveloperWorks has a helpful howto on how to bring the worlds of Ruby on Rails and your DB2 framework together. From the article: 'Because Rails emerged from the open source world, until recently you had to use MySQL or PostgreSQL to work with it. Now that IBM has released a DB2 adapter for Rails, it's possible to write efficient Web applications on top of your existing DB2 database investment.'"

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  1. Not as hot by nostriluu · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Sorry, RoR is not nearly as "hot" as Ajax. RoR people may think it is, but Ajax applies equally to all different technologies and RoR's adoption, aside from a few notables, and many small projects and hobbyist tinkering, is very low. Some RoR led concepts have made it into other languages, but it's still by far a minority player in a vast field, and very likely to succumb to a variety of factors - not being possible to be "all that" and people getting turned off, an existing or new solution comes out that's even better, and so on.

    I heard one speaker saying RoR invented MVC (when it at least originated with Smalltalk way back when), so you know there's a certain amount of hype at work here.