[Year 12 IT Apps] Anyone using Ruby for IT at Year 12/11

[Brett Groves]

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

Regards,
Brett Groves
ICT Manager
Croydon Secondary College


On 05/12/11 11:22, Ciotti, George W wrote:
> Hi,
> 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.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> George
>
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