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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello Brett</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>the study
design specifically outlaws databases and insists on text base data storage
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm curious to know where it says
this?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Robert T-A</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Brighton SC</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=groves.brett.g@edumail.vic.gov.au
href="mailto:groves.brett.g@edumail.vic.gov.au">Brett Groves</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=itapps@edulists.com.au
href="mailto:itapps@edulists.com.au">Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, December 05, 2011 11:39
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Anyone
using Ruby for IT at Year 12/11</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Yes we used Ruby and Shooes for the gui last year. Mixed
results, much slower for me to help students debug, generally easier for rapid
development but students would have universally preferred VbNet. The most
issues I found were around the lack of a really good gui generator, basically
Shooes sucks for anything but the simplest gui. On the plus side if you use
Netbeans as your IDE it supports both Ruby and Rails brilliantly, great
to work with. A word of caution though the study design specifically outlaws
databases and insists on text base data storage so Rails is of no use to you
whatsoever. Cheers<BR><PRE class=moz-signature cols="72">Regards,
Brett Groves
ICT Manager
Croydon Secondary College</PRE><BR>On 05/12/11 11:22, Ciotti, George W wrote:
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<DIV>Hi,</DIV>
<DIV>I was just wondering whether anyone is or has used Ruby? More commonly
known as Ruby on Rails or just Rails. It seems like an interesting
environment that could be used in ITA and ITSD. I am currently learning the
language and even from the early stages of the tutorials it seems a very
good fit for senior IT classes. </DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks in advance</DIV>
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<DIV>George</DIV>
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