Rubo on Rails makes a great API server, and Rails 5 will integrate existing tooling like rails-api https://github.com/rails-api/rails-api to make this feature part of the core. As far as your desktop app goes, you may want to look at the new Electron framework: https://github.com/atom/electron
Walter On May 10, 2015, at 1:32 PM, J Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm sorry if this is a dumb question. I am new to Ruby. I eventually would > like to build an application that will be used by businesses to review their > potential clients payment history. It will store this information in a > database and provide a clean user friendly gui to add, modify, and delete > entries from the database. This information can then be viewed by several > businesses in the industry. > > I want to generate revenue by charging each location a per month fee to > access the database. I'd rather it launch like a desktop application and be > downloaded to each computer that will use it. I guess, i would like it to be > like the spotify desktop application without the ability to go to the website > in a browser. Like a local application that connects to a web based server > resource. > > How can this be done using Ruby? Sorry again if its a dumb question but I am > a newbie. I want to eventually learn rails but I'm currently learning ruby > first. > > Thanks > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/9f0a388a-204e-45e9-8967-fde838e750eb%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/4AD695F7-7FBA-4923-B618-A59C4F807191%40wdstudio.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
