yes, the full stack would be required. I am using rails3 btw. regards,
Lee Farrell On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Igor Spivak <[email protected]> wrote: > are you looking for the full rails stack? Or would a ruby-based MVC stack > work for you? Look at http://rhomobile.com/. > I have used them in the past, and they do what you want, but its not a full > rails stack, more like a ruby-mvc subset. > > -igor > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:37 PM, cipher_neo <[email protected]> wrote: > >> thanks for your reply. >> >> I think you are right in what you say. It would be too much of a >> memory hog to do such a thing. >> >> I will have to have a dedicated server for the hosting of the RoR app. >> >> I am building a point of sale system where the interface is html on a >> tablet pc, so I was digging into my options. >> >> May be best to just access a small linux server over wifi. >> >> On Mar 30, 2:18 pm, Walter Lee Davis <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I'm not aware of such a beast, but one thing to consider is memory and >> > processing speed. We use Rails because it maximizes our (developer) >> > productivity, and it does so at a cost of requiring a fairly studly >> > server to run the back-end. I haven't tried running RoR on anything >> > less than a 1/2 GB VPS. >> > >> > Now when I was just starting out in this tech wheeze, I had an off- >> > cast SE/30 running some Mac Web server, and it was pretty darned quick >> > on the local network. A pal of mine had installed Unix on his, and >> > hooked it to a T1, and could saturate the T with upstream traffic from >> > Apache. But that's static service, nothing dynamic. That SE/30, with >> > its 16MHz 68030 processor, 1 whole Megabyte of RAM, and creaky-slow >> > SCSI 1 hard disk could be speedier than the network when the task was >> > sized to it, but try to get it to also run a database server, an >> > application server, etc. at the same time as all those Web requests, >> > and you would have had a sad little putty-colored puddle. >> > >> > Now you're talking about running the server AND the browser in the >> > same memory- and process-limited environment. I don't think it's >> > realistic to expect this to work well or even at all. I use a beefy >> > Mac laptop to do the same thing for development purposes, but that's >> > orders of magnitude more processing power, available RAM, and storage >> > for data and swap. It's just not even in the same universe. And even >> > that beast can be quite noticeably slower than the same app running >> > from SliceHost over my network connection. >> > >> > Walter >> >> > >> > On Mar 30, 2011, at 5:13 AM, cipher_neo wrote: >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > Hey guys, >> > >> > > I am building an RoR web app that I would like to have fully contained >> > > in a tablet computer. >> > >> > > I would like to run the server on it, and also use it as the client. >> > >> > > Is this possible with any tablet computers out there at the moment? >> > > I really am aiming to get it working on the android tablet, but any >> > > tablet that allows you to install ruby and run a server would >> > > suffice. >> > >> > > any help appreciated! >> > >> > > Lee >> > >> > > -- >> > > 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 rubyonrails- >> > > [email protected]. >> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> > > . >> > > For more options, visit this group athttp:// >> groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en >> > > . >> >> -- >> 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. >> >> > -- 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.
