El 13/03/14 10:25, Stefan Haslinger escribió:
> Hi Ignacio, 
> 
>     Your critics are really really welcome! About the rubyracer gem, it's
>     more of a Rails decision to force users to choose between installing
>     node or uncommenting the gem. Do you think that Hobo should try to help
>     users by just uncommenting it?
> 
> I see some chicken/egg problem here. Sure it's Rails's and the user's
> decision, but it lets the wizard fail which could beginners hold back
> from Hobo.
> (I still don't understand why Hobo isn't waaay more popular.)
>  
> 
> 
>     So it might be a Ruby version issue. If you have time, could you try to
>     reproduce it with Ruby 2.0? 
> 
> Sure, and indeed it works on 2.0! 
> Now I took the approach of a clean install  (maybe there is something
> mad with my rvm or so...)
> 2.0 still works. 2.1.1 still breaks. Yes, it is a Ruby version issue.

Understood, issue added: https://github.com/Hobo/hobo/issues/77. Let's
try to get Ruby 2.1 fixed soon :).

> 
> Meanwhile the "Mesonic Browser" is useable and I want to tell you about
> it, because I saw, that you worked on the SQLServer-Adapter gem
> and I think it's an interesting use case:
> 
> I am dealing with a big legacy ERP MSSQL Database here, which has column
> names like C045 and Table names like T027 which I can't stand.
> But I have a mega Excel Sheet explaining all the column and table names
> and telling me about primary keys.
> 
> So I thought I give it a try with current Hobo. I am using 
> 
>     gem 'activerecord-sqlserver-adapter', '~> 4.0.0', :git =>
>     'git://github.com/rails-sqlserver/activerecord-sqlserver-adapter'
> 
> which officially doesn't support Rails 4, but for my needs, it's working.
> 
> I imported the Excel sheet into SQLite Tables and use these in a rake
> task to generate Hobo Models connecting to the MSSQL Database.
> Actually there are 365 models, not kidding. 
> I also created the I18n de.yml in a rake task (I am German speaking, but
> that's not relevant here) which has now 14945 lines.
> 
> I use Hobo as an admin interface to this database, application startup
> time is quite long, but so what? 
> Thanks for your work on rails-dev-boost Gem, that helped a lot speeding
> it up.
> I made sure, that only one connection to the MSSQL Server is done, not
> one per model, which also helped a lot.
> The last small thing I tweaked was the admin menu.
> 
> I did all this more to check if Hobo works with the MSSQL database as a
> backend, but now I have a mega admin app as a spin-off.

Wow, that's a lot of nice work!! I have used Hobo too with a very old
MSSQL 2000 database and it was a nice experience. But nothing like 365
models :P. I'm glad the speed is not too bad :).

Regards,
Ignacio

> 
> Ciao,
> Stefan
> 
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