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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>
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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
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