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> 2009/6/16 Pascal J. Bourguignon <p... / informatimago.com>:
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> > Dave Kubasiak <dave... / hotmail.com> writes:
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> >> Good morning,
>
> >> I know just about zero about Ruby but the company I work for is doing
> >> some Ruby development and I need to eventually learn the language.
> >> There is a program re-write project I need to complete and I was
> >> wondering if Ruby would be appropriate for it.
>
> >> The app I need to write is a communication app.  ¨Âòåáäìéóô ïæ
> >> devices from a database and uses a bank of modems/phone lines to call
> >> out and collect data from them at different times.  ¨Âèåòå áòèõîäòåäó
> >> of devices so the app is always running, though it's idle periodically
> >> throughout the day.  ¨Âîååäôï èáöå ÇÕóï óïíåïîãáóåáô > >> glance what it's doing, and it needs to be multi-threaded.  ¨Â÷ïõì> >> most likely be running on Windows since that's the only GUI OS we
> >> currently have running (we have Solaris and Linux boxes but they're only
> >> console, not GUI).
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> >> Would Ruby be appropriate for this task?
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> > Definitely.
>
> >> I've read that it can be
> >> sluggish and that GUI programming is somewhat lacking.  ¨Âõô áìóï äïî§> >> know how old those comments were or how Ruby has progesses since they
> >> were made.
>
> > Well, I would rather provide the user interface as an embedded web
> > server, so this application can run in background and can be
> > monitorized from the LAN from any web browser.  ¨Âèåòå áòìéâòáòéåôï
> > allow you to write simple web servers in ruby very easily.
>
> Good idea!  ¨Âîïôèåò áìôåòîáôéö÷ïõìâå ÓÎÍÐ éæ éîôåçòáôéïéîôï óïíå
> existing monitoring framework is required.
>
> >> Or would something like Java, C#, etc, be better suited?
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> > I'd bet a Ruby solution would be better (easier to write, debug and
> > maintain).  ¨Âèå ïîìù éíðòïöåíåî÷ïõìâå ôï õóÃïííïî Ìéóðâõ> > guess your company isn't prepared to jump to Common Lisp right now.
> > In a few years...
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> I wouldn't bet on that a solution in Ruby is better.  ¨Â Êáöá âáóå> solution with a Swing UI would probably be as good.
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> Kind regards
>
> robert
>
> --
> remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without endhttp://blog.rubybestpractices.com/

Although I prefer Ruby for lot of tasks over other programming
languages I would recommend you C#. Since you are already on MS
Windows platform using C# is definitely the best choice. Creating form
(s) for monitoring is very easy and development is quite fast. In
addition debugging C# applications in Visual Studio is much, much
better than you'll find for Ruby.

Best regards,
Bosko