What is the best way to get started with rails/ruby?
My current ruby plan
- Switch all scripting assignments at work to it that I can get away
with -:). Probably have to use Jruby on HP.
So the question here is the question. Has anyone got the HP UX-11
port working ? If so what is the performance like?
I have jruby running, but it is a bit sluggish.
My Rails plan
- Building simple contacts application
How do you figure out what the best technology stack to use. I see all
the following stuff and get kind of glazed over.
Ruby
Rails
MasterView
RJS
Hobo
ActiveState
ActiveRecord
Migrations
SexyMigrations
What editing tools to use
Editors
Scite
UltraEdit
Others?
IDE's
Netbeans
Aptana - RADRails
To give some context to the question above.
I work for a company called PTC - they build big CAD tools and
enterprise collaboration tools. I tend to work on the grungier parts of
it - DB, System, Integration. Our tool set is not very good and I want
to remedy that - at least for the project I am on.
In pure ruby I am going to build some system admin type tools. I could
use nagios, hobbit or something else along that line, but I kind of want
the excuse to write the scripts. I found one system admin tool written
in ruby, but it looked like a commercial offering. But if there is
something I would be happy to hack around with it as a starting point.
Otherwise it seems like a good exuse to write networking, parsing and
system code.
- On each deployed machine
- Process monitoring
- Up
- Down
- Mem Usage
- Start/Stop/restart
- Log file parsing
- disk monitor
- internal application statics - internal queue monitoring
In rails I want to build some simple apps to
- Contact Manager
- link to mapping tool via address
- Asset manager
- help with all the hardware we have scattered about
- Name
- Location
- Address
...
Both pretty simple master detail(s) applications. I would like to put a
pretty front end on and build up the knowledge of the tools
Once I become more proficient I would probably write a nice webbish
front end to the system admin tools.
So please feel free to comment on any of this - I am currently a sponge
(no sponge Bob jokes please) with the hopes of becoming a contributor
someday.
--Bob
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