Unfortunately not an option. Any data has to stay in-house since it would be considered to high a security risk to store it externally (it's not really, because we only have security theatre). And I have looked at many other options (including OpenOffice, Excel + Ruby Win32, DabbleDB and others) but they either require data stored outside our network (No DabbleDB which I like) or have no easy access to 3rd party or open source apps (very large installation of Mac/Wintel machines in a very restricted environment). This basically reduces the application to a web-based, internally hosted solution.I've tried working with Excel (I mean really tried) but I just end up shaving the yak with the amount of work I have to do just to get it to work on my machine (with our BOE-Ruby-WIn32 doesn't even work) let alone having a deployed, semi-usable application.
I don't want to re-invent the wheel. I use a Mac because I don't like doing work I don't have to. If Excel could do everything, I would use it. On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Eaden McKee <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi there, > > >> I'm about to start work on a project that's more than a little ambitious > (for me) > > What about using Google Spreadsheets + API to do the processing? Or > OpenOffice + DataSource? > Just some suggestions to try to avoid re-inventing the wheel. You > could of course make your own spreadsheet like application in rails > with a little bit of meta-programming but I can imagine there are more > pragmatic solutions. > > Eaden > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" 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/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
