J8/ Nothing special about Hobo working with legacy databases -
anything that Activerecord can do...

Also, Hobo adds the intelligence of adding the indexes you will need
on foreign keys to improve performance, and is aware that Oracle has a
limit on column and index name lengths.

For the most common "legacy" database connectors, see:

  http://groups.google.com/group/rails-sqlserver-adapter

  http://groups.google.com/group/oracle-enhanced

J6/ Hobocentral is not keeping up with "Hobo in the Wild", but you
might want to see:

http://portal.nifa.usda.gov

The portal and several of the applications behind the portal use Hobo.


-Owen

On Mar 8, 5:35 am, JezC <[email protected]> wrote:
> Questions:
>
> J1/ What's a good development environment? - Webrick, Unicorn, etc?
> And a basic Gemfile (e.g. conditionally include ruby-debug, switch
> Rack to 1.2.4 (or am I alone in getting crashes when I use 1.2.5?))
> with all the core bits, and a commented section with the "extras" like
> the jquery stuff that Bryan has published. So... "install rvm, install
> ruby 1.9.2, update gem, install rails 3.0.11, install hobo 1.3, edit
> Gemfile, run bundle install, set gemset... now you can start to make
> new hobo projects". "add jquery, add ..." and now you can tackle some
> more complex projects. And the regular set of checks on ruby version,
> gem version, gems, rails versions, hobo versions; how to keep up to
> date and how to freeze for production environments.
>
> J2/ Are there any editors that cope with DRYML? e.g. TextMate/emacs/vi
> etc?
>
> J3/ What about security? After the latest mass assignment kerfuffle,
> what needs to be done to make Hobo resistant to simple attack?
>
> J4/ What's a good development cycle? e.g. As I was learning, I've
> found that it paid to do a 'hobo g migration' pretty much anytime I'd
> changed a file. Eventually I've worked out when I *should* do a "hobo
> g migration", but I wasn't doing it enough to start with and that
> caused silly problems.
>
> J5/ What do you need to know about Rails to get started, and where do
> you find out more about Rails (and why you'll need to do so)?
>
> J6/ What real websites have been put together with Hobo?
>
> J7/ What's the difference between Datamapper and Hobo Fields, and can
> I use both?
>
> J8/ Can Hobo work with legacy databases, and how?
>
> J9/ How do I pass back an extra field from a form?
>
> That's my group of questions :)
>
> I think I can now answer your question 1, in simple language. I can
> answer some of the questions I've raised, I think... I can probably
> write reasonably useful answers to J9, possibly J1, J4. The other
> questions are partly my experience, and I've been introducing a few
> other people to Hobo and have been listening to their problems...
>
> Document? Or is this really another web app, with a summary page?
> Preferably with community voting a la the stackoverflow type models?
>
> Cheers, JeremyC.
>
> On Mar 8, 3:15 am, Bryan Larsen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > As I mentioned off-hand in an answer to Bob's question, it would be
> > nice to have a document called "frequently asked questions and
> > misunderstandings".   Let's use this thread to suggest questions and
> > solicit volunteers to answer them.
>
> > 1)  What's the difference between a tag invocation without a colon,
> > with a colon on the end of the tag name and with a colon in the middle
> > of the tag name.
>
> > 2) Why doesn't Hobo throw an error for an undefined parameter?
>
> > 3) How come I can't mix parameter and non-parameter tags?
>
> > other questions?   Anybody want to volunteer to answer some of these?
>
> > cheers,
> > Bryan

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