Ruby on Rails for DB2 Developers

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.'"

Comments

Really good news.

[marcello_dl]

Getting the likes of IBM to recognize the usefulness of the Rails framework is a little more than just another DBMS supported: rails used to be bashed, especially by java people, for not being "enterprise ready". They criticised the limitations of the active record ORM (but it's open source, you can either extend it or make your custom sql calls), or the relative immaturity of ruby and libraries.

Now such claims will sound less credible so more dubious people might give it a try.

Re:RoR vs Django?

[amaupin]

Haven't tried Django, but while Ruby on Rails is making progress, it's still no match for the power and flexibility of Zope.

Re:RoR Question from JAVA newbie...

[mr_rattles]

The API is designed for Java/.Net and you think it's a good excuse to learn Ruby? Wouldn't it be a better excuse to learn Java or .Net? Also, you said it yourself that it's a simple app so I don't think you need to bend over backwards "designing" a "full-fledged" Java app either. Just write the simple app using whichever API makes most sense for whatever you're interfacing with. On one side you say you have a Java/.Net API but what do you need to interface that with, another Java/.Net app? If that's the case your decision should be obvious.