Do you bank, buy insurance, shop at Home Depot, go to hospital, have your packages delivered by UPS, fly major airline, make telephone calls, get IRS audit notices, go to hospital, buy groceries, pay for electricity fill up at the gas station...? Let me give you a hint... you are not most likely using DB2. So, other then to be the backbone of commerce it is not used much:-)
"IBM has been hosting articles about RoR for some time - this is not a major change in attitude - it is indeed simply getting just another DBMS supported."
I think there is a very important point that you are missing in your argument. IBM DB2 is now the only database platform that has been enabled for Ruby on Rails by the database vendor. DB2 is not relying on drivers/adapters to be provided by someone in the community. As good as some of the community-provided enablement can be it is no match to what a database vendor would provide.
Another important point. New technologies like Ruby on Rails are typically rejected by the IT managers until they see evidence of a major IT provider committing to the technology. IBM release of enablement for DB2 on Rails http://alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/DB2onRails will go a long way in bringing Ruby on Rails in the enterprise... a heck of a long way further then "just another database".
As for Ruby on Rails not being "enterprise ready"... isn't the same thing that just a few years ago people were saying about Linux and Java? No doubt Ruby on Rails still has some growing up to do but it is ready for a lot of applications in the enterprise today. The question is "is the enterprise ready for Ruby on Rails?". Having IBM put DB2 on Rails and posting these articles on developerDomain can go a long way to getting enterprises there. For my money, everybody should try to do a small project now in RoR if for no other reason then to see what their programming job is going to look like in a couple of years:-)
I think before calling authors names like "sophomore pimply FOSS-monkey intern" you ought to at least do a search on the author's name. http://www.xml.com/pub/au/Dumbill_Edd Edd Dumbill is a very respected guy in his field and has some very serious Ruby on Rails projects behind his belt. He is neither "sophomore" nor "pimply" and has quite a bit of integrity.
You should take a look at Starter Toolkit for DB2 on Rails. It is a complete package of everything that you will need including a copy of DB2 Express - C that is absolutely free to distribute as part of your finished application and it does not limit the size of your data like the other database servers do. It is a complete one-click installer for everything. The integrated installer is for Windows at this point but the one for Linux is in the works. Bookmark http://db2onrails.com/ if you are interested in watching this very fast evolving space.
As for the IDEs, there are quite a few really good ones out there RadRails that just got an award as the best Open Source Eclipse-based Tool. Matt Kent, Marc Baumbach, and Kyle Shank have done an amazing job on the tool and a nice presentation at the RailsConf 2006 in Chicago. There is also RDT. There is even a set of add-ins called Saphhire in Steel for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. I can just see all the sladhdotters rushing to get this one:-) and flame to death in the process.
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Do you bank, buy insurance, shop at Home Depot, go to hospital, have your packages delivered by UPS, fly major airline, make telephone calls, get IRS audit notices, go to hospital, buy groceries, pay for electricity fill up at the gas station ...? Let me give you a hint ... you are not most likely using DB2. So, other then to be the backbone of commerce it is not used much :-)
I think there is a very important point that you are missing in your argument. IBM DB2 is now the only database platform that has been enabled for Ruby on Rails by the database vendor. DB2 is not relying on drivers/adapters to be provided by someone in the community. As good as some of the community-provided enablement can be it is no match to what a database vendor would provide.
Another important point. New technologies like Ruby on Rails are typically rejected by the IT managers until they see evidence of a major IT provider committing to the technology. IBM release of enablement for DB2 on Rails http://alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/DB2onRails will go a long way in bringing Ruby on Rails in the enterprise ... a heck of a long way further then "just another database".
As for Ruby on Rails not being "enterprise ready" ... isn't the same thing that just a few years ago people were saying about Linux and Java? No doubt Ruby on Rails still has some growing up to do but it is ready for a lot of applications in the enterprise today. The question is "is the enterprise ready for Ruby on Rails?". Having IBM put DB2 on Rails and posting these articles on developerDomain can go a long way to getting enterprises there. For my money, everybody should try to do a small project now in RoR if for no other reason then to see what their programming job is going to look like in a couple of years :-)
I think before calling authors names like "sophomore pimply FOSS-monkey intern" you ought to at least do a search on the author's name. http://www.xml.com/pub/au/Dumbill_Edd Edd Dumbill is a very respected guy in his field and has some very serious Ruby on Rails projects behind his belt. He is neither "sophomore" nor "pimply" and has quite a bit of integrity.
You should take a look at Starter Toolkit for DB2 on Rails. It is a complete package of everything that you will need including a copy of DB2 Express - C that is absolutely free to distribute as part of your finished application and it does not limit the size of your data like the other database servers do. It is a complete one-click installer for everything. The integrated installer is for Windows at this point but the one for Linux is in the works. Bookmark http://db2onrails.com/ if you are interested in watching this very fast evolving space. As for the IDEs, there are quite a few really good ones out there RadRails that just got an award as the best Open Source Eclipse-based Tool. Matt Kent, Marc Baumbach, and Kyle Shank have done an amazing job on the tool and a nice presentation at the RailsConf 2006 in Chicago. There is also RDT. There is even a set of add-ins called Saphhire in Steel for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. I can just see all the sladhdotters rushing to get this one :-) and flame to death in the process.