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ruby-talk
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Hello:

I have a few (very quick) getting started questions about Ruby.

I’ve been doing a lot of web design (asp, javascript, etc…) for the
last few years and now I’ve reached a point where there is life after
the Internet. I’m finding that I’m needing to create some faily
simple custom programs for use as stand alone applications under
windows. Ie. stuff that does NOT run in a browser. So here we go:

#1 Is Ruby a good choice for a general porpose langarge that can build
stand alone apps under Windows?

#2 I may be off the web but I still gotta have my data, does Ruby
support ODBC or some other way to connect to SQL server or an access
database?

#3 What are your top two “most helpful” web sites for working with
Ruby.

Thanks for any Input.

Steve.

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Hello:

hi!

#1 Is Ruby a good choice for a general porpose langarge that can build
stand alone apps under Windows?

I think so, you could use winapi, ole, and lots of other stuff.

#2 I may be off the web but I still gotta have my data, does Ruby
support ODBC or some other way to connect to SQL server or an access
database?

ruby-DBI is a common interface to many database:
ADO, ODBC , DB2 , InterBase , MySQL , Oracle , PostgreSQL , etc

What are your top two “most helpful” web sites for working with
Ruby.

I think http://www.rubygarden.org/ is the most useful, with
raa.ruby-lang.org.

And this newsgroup/mailing list could solve all the problems you could
have.
The ruby community is wonderful

Thanks for any Input.
Steve.

np

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il Thu, 06 Mar 2003 17:56:50 -0500, no@spam4me.com ha scritto::

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Hello:

OK, that’s enough to get me off and running. Thanks again.

Steve.

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On Fri, 07 Mar 2003 00:04:18 GMT, gabriele renzi surrender_it@remove.yahoo.it wrote:

il Thu, 06 Mar 2003 17:56:50 -0500, no@spam4me.com ha scritto::

Hello:

hi!

#1 Is Ruby a good choice for a general porpose langarge that can build
stand alone apps under Windows?

I think so, you could use winapi, ole, and lots of other stuff.

#2 I may be off the web but I still gotta have my data, does Ruby
support ODBC or some other way to connect to SQL server or an access
database?

ruby-DBI is a common interface to many database:
ADO, ODBC , DB2 , InterBase , MySQL , Oracle , PostgreSQL , etc

What are your top two “most helpful” web sites for working with
Ruby.

I think http://www.rubygarden.org/ is the most useful, with
raa.ruby-lang.org.

And this newsgroup/mailing list could solve all the problems you could
have.
The ruby community is wonderful

Thanks for any Input.
Steve.

np