On Friday, 8 August 2014 11:59:26 UTC-4, Ruby-Forum.com User wrote: > > Alright, so I apologize if this meanders a bit: > > I am very new to Ruby in general (I've self taught and studied up, but > don't have much experience at all). What I'm trying to make is > proof-of-concept web app that will take user input from a form, put it > into a format usable by OpenRules (something with which I have even less > experience), execute it, and display the output. > > I realize this sounds convoluted (which is why I'm thoroughly confused), > but I need to figure out how to make this work. > > The way I see it, it shouldn't be difficult to acquire a record from the > user and put it into a friendly format (.xls, I believe), but even > ignoring my unfamiliarity with OpenRules, I'm not sure how to go about > executing the rules (which seem to be tied to Java), or how to get the > result back. > > Sorry for all the confusion! I'm on my first internship at an IT firm, > and this was just "assigned" to me. I greatly appreciate any > insight/advice/examples/etcetera that anyone has to offer! > > I don't have any experience with OpenRules, but here's some thoughts:
* before anything else, figure out how to get it up and running. The OpenRules site suggests Eclipse is involved, so that should be fun. * get JRuby. If you're going to have any chance at invoking OpenRules from Ruby, this is likely it. * read up on invoking Java code from JRuby. This is a good start: https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/CallingJavaFromJRuby * last but should be done first: ASK SOMEBODY. It's possible that all the above have been addressed by internal documentation / tooling. --Matt Jones -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/9e2d564b-348b-4c78-832b-ee4c930360c4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
