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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.

  2. I imagine... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait


    (when all is said and done, you'd probably have to call this a troll. An uneducated one at that...)

    I imagine that all three people who use DB2 are quite pleased with this development :)

    Seriously, I haven't seen any person or development shop in my area using DB2. I've never heard of it being used at all. What kind of market share does it have?

    Uneducated in Ohio