On 6/15/07, Lisa Retief <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > On 6/14/07, Brian Silberbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anybody using ruby out there? > > > Yes, it has become my scripting language of choice for automation and > other such things. > > Have also looked a Rails a bit as a prototyping platform.
Next question: is anybody doing anything with Groovy? I'm starting to get into it here -- when we moved to an admin/ERP/student system sitting atop Oracle, I found that JDBC was the quickest route to talk to Oracle, and have been looking at scripting languages on the JVM since. I had been using Python in the past, and Jython worked well for a lot of the quick/dirty stuff that we need to do...but it didn't have any clear path to doing web based stuff. I haven't tried JRuby yet -- my main quandry here was that the draw for Ruby was rails, which doesn't work on JRuby, and I don't think the ORM stuff in Rails has support for Oracle, yet (?). Then I started playing with Groovy, which...seems to be pretty productive for the same quick-n-dirty stuff and is also easy to use in the JSP/Servlet environment. There is also Grails, but I haven't spent much time with it yet. My dilemma -- I have some ex mainframe Natural/Adabas developers. Apparently the success rate at turning these into Java developers is somewhat low...I was actually thinking of working on a Java-training -plus-Groovy-on-the-job-by-example strategy of reskilling. But I also wonder if I'm not a little bit crazy for thinking this. -- Soren Aalto Director: ICT University of Zululand --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CTJUG Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CTJUG-Forum For the ctjug home page see http://www.ctjug.org.za -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
