On Oct 14, 2010, at 9:48 AM, Colin Law wrote: > On 14 October 2010 17:24, Josh Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: >> I and the rest of my group are students at the university collage >> london. We have had little or no experience in the world of information >> systems. It just happens to be an unfortunate part of our course that we have >> to complete this module. > > However I must say that to ask students with little or no experience > in the world of IS the question 'how Ruby on Rails could be > intergrated into a 3-tier architecure for produce a single intergrated > source of student data and information. It would included both > adminstrative and public records etc.' seems a little odd.
It is odd, with the possible exception that perhaps the point of the project is for the students to learn how to analyze a problem they know nothing about and provide a useful answer. People do this all the time in real life. Knowing how to acquire enough knowledge about the problem in order to provide some useful information is a valuable skill. I won't answer your question, but given what you've said so far I would research the following: - Oracle and how well/poorly it interacts with Ruby/Rails. - Issues around using Rails with "legacy databases". To kick start this one, pay particular attention to articles/info about tables that do not have numeric primary keys. - The pros/cons of using Rails over Django/PHP/Perl/Java/ColdFusion/ASP. Not from a technical perspective (although that might be useful too) but from a "what resources do you have available now and in the future" perspective. I would think that with appropriate googling of the net and this mailing list in particular you should find lots of information that would allow you to give a decent pro/con of using Rails for this module. -philip -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
