San Francisco recap
Posted by Jeremy Voorhis Sat, 19 Nov 2005 23:23:17 GMT
As Robby mentioned earlier today, we returned late last night from a rather short-notice consulting gig. I went the from the frisco shore, putting my feet in the Pacific Ocean for the first time (yes, it was cold) to sitting in a pizza parlor in PDX with an Obsidian 4 short hours later. For your enjoyment, we will post some of our antics and escapades later on the Planet Argon Flickr photostream.
As per Robby’s post, we cannot talk much about the client yet, but they are currently using Rails to manage the manufacturing of their product and shipping throughout the country. We are talking about accepting input via barcode scanners, and controlling some pretty large machines on the other end.
Yep, that’s right. Despite any controversy you may have read or perpetuated, enterprise Ruby / Rails has crept up on us, silently.
Are you able to specify whether you’re actually using Ruby to control the machinery you’re referring too, or just using Ruby to process information being retrieved from the machinery?
That is a capability that may end up being important to a potential client of mine.
Sending data to the machinery which causes it to move, but not physically controlling it. Still quite an impressive spread…
right, that’s what I meant.. you are actually sending the data to the machines from Ruby. Very good to know, thanks!