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

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Hello Brett

"the study design specifically outlaws databases and insists on text base data storage "

I'm curious to know where it says this?

Regards
Robert T-A
Brighton SC
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Brett Groves 
  To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List 
  Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 11:39 AM
  Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Anyone using Ruby for IT at Year 12/11


  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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