Hi
I work for a local government in NY. We use Java extensively for our in-house applications. Recently there has been interest in moving away from Java for some of our applications. I'm not a developer per se, but I've been coming up to speed to make the pitch.
My understanding is that RoR's strengths lie in simple CRUD database apps, where there is data in tables that needs to be managed by web pages. And Ruby can interact with Java via JRuby.
In terms of integration with messaging: if there are Ruby libraries that can interact with MQ and put a text message on a queue, we can pull it out using JMS no problem.
We're also investigating OODBMS technology. Is there any development being done with RoR and OODBMS such as db4o?
Finally, how would RoR compare to Adobe's Flex? This is probably comparing apples to oranges, but there has been interest in Flex as well.
Thank you in advance for your assistance.
amani