Vadim Comanescu wrote in post #957889: > Hello, > > I'm thinking to build an application that will work directly with the > Solaris operating system. It will be consisted of a REST-ful > architecture to provide customization and different interactions with > Solaris OS. > Basically my data source would be the Solaris OS. I'm wondering is it > worth trying to build this in Rails? Since the application is not > database driven i'm starting to question myself if not all the amazing > functionality provided by ROR becomes obsolete like object relations and > all the Active Record design ?
Particularly with Rails 3 (now that ActiveModel's been abstracted), you don't necessarily need to use a DB to get ActiveRecord-like features. But I agree that a priori, this seems like a strange use case for Rails. Sinatra or something else might be more appropriate... ...or why not just use Webmin? What is this application supposed to do in detail? > Any suggestions would be more than appreciated. Thank in advance. > > Vadim Comanescu Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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.
