[dundee] Database front end - any ideas?

[Barry Carr]

Rails has Oracle support:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/haefel-oracle-ruby.html.



Gary Short wrote:
> <3 wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> A bunch of us have a database project to do and I was wondering if 
>> anyone had any ideas for what we could use as a front end?
>>
>> We were thinking of maybe a having web interface. I believe the back 
>> end has to be Oracle. Preferably cross platform (mixture of windows, 
>> linux and OS X developers), and also if it requires an install it 
>> should be something we can all get our hands on easily.
>>
>> I dont know a whole lot about databases.. but am always interested in 
>> learning something new and interesting.
>>
>> All ideas welcome!
>> -Jen
> 
> Web front end will be faster (to develope) and easier to get hold of. 
> I'd go for something that has scaffolding that way the heavy lifting is 
> done for you. Something like Ruby on Rails or CodeIgniter for PHP would 
> be great places to start. Mind you, I'm not sure about Oracle support, 
> you'd have to check as I've only used MySQL with these frameworks.
>