Ruby on Rails

Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote in post #957899:
> Vadim Comanescu wrote in post #957889:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm thinking to build an application that will work directly with the
>> Solaris operating system. It will be consisted of a REST-ful
>> architecture to provide customization and different interactions with
>> Solaris OS.
>> Basically my data source would be the Solaris OS. I'm wondering is it
>> worth trying to build this in Rails? Since the application is not
>> database driven i'm starting to question myself if not all the amazing
>> functionality provided by ROR becomes obsolete like object relations and
>> all the Active Record design ?
>
> Particularly with Rails 3 (now that ActiveModel's been abstracted), you
> don't necessarily need to use a DB to get ActiveRecord-like features.
>
> But I agree that a priori, this seems like a strange use case for Rails.
> Sinatra or something else might be more appropriate...
>
> ...or why not just use Webmin?
>
> What is this application supposed to do in detail?
>
>> Any suggestions would be more than appreciated. Thank in advance.
>>
>> Vadim Comanescu
>
> Best,
> --
> Marnen Laibow-Koser
> http://www.marnen.org
> marnen@marnen.org

Hi,

The application will be a web based application that will handle the
configuration of an opensolaris system and here it includes :
networking, active directory integration and other solaris
functionality. The data layer will be represented by the system itself.
Then the application will grow toward administrating the native zfs
filesystem and here i talk about managing large diskpools, nfs sharing,
iscsi sharing and integration with virtualization mechanisms as VMware.
What i'm trying to figure out is if Rails can provide me the ORM needed
for this kind of stuff or should am i doomed to build my own from
scratch. From what i see using the Solaris system as an Active Resource
in Rails it does not work considering that is not a REST service. So
this is bassicaly what i need to do and i'm just wondering if Rails is
suited for this kind of business logic.

Thanks for the prompt reply.

--
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group.
To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.