Vadim Comanescu wrote in post #957914: [...] > The main reason for which im trying to build this is for the > configuration of the native zfs filesystem on solaris - building > diskpools, handling iscsi sharing, integration with VMware and other > solutions for virtualization. And that is not present in webmin or any > other app that configures unix systems.
Can you do that from a high-level application? I don't know how Solaris configuration works. > I was thinking of mapping every system resource in an entity (object) in > my application. That might make sense. > Also considering that it will have a rich web interface > for configuration im thinking pure scripting What do you mean by "pure scripting"? > just wont do it without a > backend server where the application runs. Uh, what? Wouldn't the application just run on the box that it was supposed to configure? > And it would be really hard > from what i'm guessing now to actually reflect the complex interactions > in the system without a well designed layered architecture for this. > That's why i was wondering about rails considering the MVC architecture > and the implementation of object aggregation like has_a or belongs_to or > any other relationships that might have helped me alot. has_many and belongs_to are only meaningful with a relational database. Ruby objects aggregate beautifully without these. Don't be so dazzled by Rails that you forget what core Ruby offers. > But i guess > rails for this would be an overkill. Well, ActiveRecord would be unnecessary (I think), which *probably* means that Rails would be overkill...but try it! Start with something like Sinatra and see how far you get; be prepared to switch to Rails (or something else entirely) if necessary. > > Thanks again. 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.
