Perhaps you might be able to tap into using JRuby ( http://jruby.codehaus.org/) if you have access to any of the ESRI Java APIs (http://edn.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=java.gateway) . I see that there is a ArcSDE Java API.
Sort of the best of both these worlds - the Ruby scripting language with access to the extensive Java libraries (most far better than the equivalent Rudy libraries). There are also a fair number of OSGeo Java libraries (like GeoTools). JRuby can do Ruby on Rails just fine. Version 1.0 of JRudy was released this past June. - Mark (my understanding is that Jython is also being revived ;-) On 7/31/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks Sean and Puneet, > > IMO: > > We're working in a cross platform environment: > > - ArcSDE under Unix > - ArcGIS Desktop under windows > > + other potential OSGeo products under Unix/Linux. > > I'm looking for a common scripting environment (read that to be > 'programming' environment Sean ;-) ) for housekeeping tasks between > environments as well as geoprocessing type tasks with ArcGIS Desktop. > > While Python is an excellent language, I quite like what I see in Ruby and > also in Ruby on Rails for database work. > > ....not wanting to start a flame war on what product is better than > another.... > > >
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