Rails - Mar 2006 - ruby in the enterprise

Hi all, please forgive me for such a newbie question, but I thought it would
best to tap the wealth of experience here.

I''m a new Rails guy but I''m evaluating frameworks for use in
an intranet at
a back whose internal systems are Oracle on linux. For now all my data will
be on a dedicated box but down the road I may need to make calls into other
databases hosted on other machines, running sybase or Oracle to retrieve
data. I view this as an opportunity to push rails into a legacy envirnmoent
and show the staff there what it can do.

If I need to pull data in from outside tables on other machines, can I
define them in model, or skip the abstraction and just parse raw SQL calls.
Can RoR integrate many external systems without expecting write access ?

[my box: oracle 10gi + apache2 + fastCGI + ROR] <---> [Oracle Enterprise
DB
on mainframe]

anybody have experience with this ? I don''t want to descend back into
PHP if
I don''t have to, but python with another framework is also an option.

thanks, all, i truly appreciate it.

Also, anybody here from Toronto, I''d like to meet up sometime and work
on
projects together, and I need a mentor.

n.
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Hi, Nicholas.
There is no problem to use RoR with Oracle to do everything you want.
I''m using it to create a work-platform for my enterprise.
RoR is less friendly then php but it is more powerfull.
Ivan.


Nicholas Ursa wrote:
> Hi all, please forgive me for such a newbie question, but I thought it 
> would
> best to tap the wealth of experience here.
> 
> I''m a new Rails guy but I''m evaluating frameworks for use
in an intranet
> at
> a back whose internal systems are Oracle on linux. For now all my data 
> will
> be on a dedicated box but down the road I may need to make calls into 
> other
> databases hosted on other machines, running sybase or Oracle to retrieve
> data. I view this as an opportunity to push rails into a legacy 
> envirnmoent
> and show the staff there what it can do.
> 
> If I need to pull data in from outside tables on other machines, can I
> define them in model, or skip the abstraction and just parse raw SQL 
> calls.
> Can RoR integrate many external systems without expecting write access ?
> 
> [my box: oracle 10gi + apache2 + fastCGI + ROR] <---> [Oracle
Enterprise
> DB
> on mainframe]
> 
> anybody have experience with this ? I don''t want to descend back
into
> PHP if
> I don''t have to, but python with another framework is also an
option.
> 
> thanks, all, i truly appreciate it.
> 
> Also, anybody here from Toronto, I''d like to meet up sometime and
work
> on
> projects together, and I need a mentor.
> 
> n.

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