# Ruby in the enterprise

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-in-the-enterprise/89989>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 29, 2006, 4:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-in-the-enterprise/89989 "2006-03-29T16:33:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nicholas\_Ursa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nicholas\_Ursa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Nicholas_Ursa)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 4:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-in-the-enterprise/89989/1 "2006-03-29T16:33:03Z")

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Hi all, please forgive me for such a newbie question, but I thought it  
would  
best to tap the wealth of experience here.

I’m a new Rails guy but I’m evaluating frameworks for use in an intranet  
at  
a back whose internal systems are Oracle on linux. For now all my data  
will  
be on a dedicated box but down the road I may need to make calls into  
other  
databases hosted on other machines, running sybase or Oracle to retrieve  
data. I view this as an opportunity to push rails into a legacy  
envirnmoent  
and show the staff there what it can do.

If I need to pull data in from outside tables on other machines, can I  
define them in model, or skip the abstraction and just parse raw SQL  
calls.  
Can RoR integrate many external systems without expecting write access ?

[my box: oracle 10gi + apache2 + fastCGI + ROR] \<—\> [Oracle Enterprise  
DB  
on mainframe]

anybody have experience with this ? I don’t want to descend back into  
PHP if  
I don’t have to, but python with another framework is also an option.

thanks, all, i truly appreciate it.

Also, anybody here from Toronto, I’d like to meet up sometime and work  
on  
projects together, and I need a mentor.

n.

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**Author:** ![Nicholas\_Ursa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nicholas\_Ursa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Nicholas_Ursa)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 5:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-in-the-enterprise/89989/2 "2006-03-29T17:59:17Z")

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Hi, Nicholas.  
There is no problem to use RoR with Oracle to do everything you want.  
I’m using it to create a work-platform for my enterprise.  
RoR is less friendly then php but it is more powerfull.  
Ivan.

Nicholas Ursa wrote:

> Hi all, please forgive me for such a newbie question, but I thought it  
> would  
> best to tap the wealth of experience here.
> 
> I’m a new Rails guy but I’m evaluating frameworks for use in an intranet  
> at  
> a back whose internal systems are Oracle on linux. For now all my data  
> will  
> be on a dedicated box but down the road I may need to make calls into  
> other  
> databases hosted on other machines, running sybase or Oracle to retrieve  
> data. I view this as an opportunity to push rails into a legacy  
> envirnmoent  
> and show the staff there what it can do.
> 
> If I need to pull data in from outside tables on other machines, can I  
> define them in model, or skip the abstraction and just parse raw SQL  
> calls.  
> Can RoR integrate many external systems without expecting write access ?
> 
> [my box: oracle 10gi + apache2 + fastCGI + ROR] \<—\> [Oracle Enterprise  
> DB  
> on mainframe]
> 
> anybody have experience with this ? I don’t want to descend back into  
> PHP if  
> I don’t have to, but python with another framework is also an option.
> 
> thanks, all, i truly appreciate it.
> 
> Also, anybody here from Toronto, I’d like to meet up sometime and work  
> on  
> projects together, and I need a mentor.
> 
> n.