Thanks Sean and Puneet, IMO:
We're working in a cross platform environment: - ArcSDE under Unix - ArcGIS Desktop under windows + other potential OSGeo products under Unix/Linux. I'm looking for a common scripting environment (read that to be 'programming' environment Sean ;-) ) for housekeeping tasks between environments as well as geoprocessing type tasks with ArcGIS Desktop. While Python is an excellent language, I quite like what I see in Ruby and also in Ruby on Rails for database work. ....not wanting to start a flame war on what product is better than another.... Bruce "P Kishor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/08/2007 12:41 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Please respond to [email protected] To [email protected] cc Subject Re: [Geowanking] Ruby and ArcGIS? On 7/31/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Is anyone using the Ruby scripting language with ArcGIS? > > I'd be interested in your experiences. > Hi Bruce, I have been using Perl for a pretty extensive set of ETL-type tasks ending up with data in ArcSDE. I have used the Win32 Com interface ESRI provides to do all the geoprocessing. If you have that for Ruby, you should have little problem. The documentation is spotty, and error reporting is worse, but the ArcGIS help is pretty good, and if you use the Model Builder to mock out your geoprocessing steps, you can get a pretty good idea of what to write in the language of your choice. -- Puneet Kishor http://punkish.eidesis.org/ Nelson Inst. for Env. Studies, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/ Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org/education/ S&T Policy Fellow, National Academy of Sciences http://www.nas.edu/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- collaborate, communicate, compete ===================================================================== _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking Notice: This email and any attachments may contain information that is personal, confidential, legally privileged and/or copyright.No part of it should be reproduced, adapted or communicated without the prior written consent of the copyright owner. It is the responsibility of the recipient to check for and remove viruses. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender by return email, delete it from your system and destroy any copies. You are not authorised to use, communicate or rely on the information contained in this email. Please consider the environment before printing this email.
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