I am trying to research the best language / framework to use to solve my problem. I have started looking very closely at Ruby on Rails but was wondering if some of you might be able to shed some light on why this might be a good or not a good choice.
What I need is to develop a web application that can be built upon an existing oracle database. I need it to be secure but would ideally I do not want to write my own user permission / authentication logic. Instead would like to have a customizable one that I can leverage off of. I have seen ruby on rails have many ‘gems’ that look like this would not be a problem.
Secondly I need something that I can easily reuse code for CRUD functionality on data sets. Most of this application will revolve around the users being able to edit records etc.
Lastly and most importantly, this needs to work with an existing Oracle back-end. As I started to read about ruby it seemed that hooking it up with Oracle might cause some issues. One concern I had was it seemed that you needed to install Oracle on your machine in order for it to work, my database is not on my machine but on a different server and I would prefer not to have to install oracle but rather just connect to my development server’s database… is this possible?
Thank you for your input and help.
Have you considered Oracle Application Express (APEX)? Sounds like a perfect fit to me.