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Open Source Starter Guide for IBM i Developers: Ruby and IBM i, An Introduction

The goal of this series of excerpts on Ruby and IBM i is to first ground you in the Ruby language. That won’t be easy because Ruby is probably about as different from RPG as an apple is from an orange. They are both fruits, but one must be peeled before eating and they taste very different. We are going to first “peel” Ruby so you can understand how it works.

By Pete Helgren

Editor's Note: This article is excerpted from chapter 6 of Open Source Starter Guide for IBM i Developers, by Pete Helgren.

That means a grounding in OO principles. Then we can move on to basic language syntax, access to PASE resources, DB2 for IBM i database access, and then calling RPG programs from Ruby. That’s quite a bit to cover. Ready? Let’s go!

Every programmer wants to achieve the greatest amount of work in the least amount of time…

Featured News

Introducing Monarch 11 for .NET: ASNA's next generation RPG migration suite

ASNA proudly announces Monarch 11 for .NET, the latest iteration of its IBM i RPG migration suite. Monarch 11 migrates IBM i RPG applications (RPG III or RPG IV) to Microsoft .NET.

By ASNA

Monarch 11 creates MS ASP.NET Core Web applications with Razor pages. Introduced with Monarch 11 is ASNA Encore RPG. Encore RPG facilitates RPG migrations by producing either a .NET-based free-format version of RPG or Microsoft C#. ASNA Monarch 11 for .NET is available now.

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A Moment with Carol Woodbury: Network Security Pen Testing vs. IBM i Pen Testing

Everybody does a Network Security Pen Test these days.

By Carol Woodbury

So how is that different from an IBM i Pen Test? Join Carol Woodbury in this video as she shares a very brief and simple analogy that describes Network Pen Testing and contrasts that with what happens with an IBM i Pen Test.

Want to learn more about the benefits of Pen Testing your IBM i? Contact us today at www.dxrsecurity.com

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