Two Things Ruby on Rails Does Not Have
Filed in archive Programming by jason on February 02, 2006
First, one thing that I would like to do with Ruby on Rails is create a web services client that my application could use to consume exposed services with on the Internet. I'm thinking along the lines of creating mashups etc... but I cannot find any examples of this type of thing having been done. Here I think of something along the lines of Apache Axis in Java.
Second, I really wish there was some way to encapsulate a scheduler inside my web application. For some reason I would have thought that it would be easy to spawn a process that would be able to fire off tasks at predetermined times somewhere in the background. I've been told though that this is not possible with RoR and that I would need to use Cron or AT to accomplish something like that with Rails. Here I'm thinking of the ability to fire off emails based on data in a database or... to fire off a request to some web service store the results in a database. I think of the Java Quartz scheduler as I write this now.
Anyway, during my travels in the Rails world I've run into these things. I keep my Eyes Open
to see if anyone else has run into these issues as well but I have not seen anyone bring them up. Permalink: Two Things Ruby on Rails Does Not Have
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