Generating a Ruby on Rails app FAST. Better hold on!

I’m going to take a new approach with this article by first showing how quickly a Ruby On Rails application can be created. At the conclusion of this article, I’ll go back and fully explain what we’ve accomplished. To get started, open a PASE shell (i.e. CALL QP2TERM or SSH into your IBM i, as […]

The Community Ruby Brings to IBM i

When PowerRuby was first introduced in October of 2013, I penned the following quote for the announcement: There’s something special going on with Ruby and Rails.  Never before has there been such coordinated community efforts to efficiently produce reusable code (aka gems) in such open and social fashions. Coding is fun again. We want to […]