title: Ruby / Rails working with Delphi back end
body: <p>Can anyone point me to some sources or tutorials that would help me wrap my head around using Rails to connect/inquire with a Delphi backend (using a Firebird database).</p>
  
  <p>Also, a few questions regarding this setup.<br>
  Is a Delphi back-end faster than a rails back end? Delphi seems to have far better support for connecting to firebird than the ruby drivers would.</p>
  
  <p>What is the current best choice method for making requests? The REST stuff, or some kind of RPC? or something else?</p>
  
  <p>Since we are currently a Delphi shop, i assumed the back end being in delphi would help us leverage current skills better.</p>
  
  <p>Any help is appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>EDIT:  Little bit about the set up.</p>
  
  <p>So to make this easier to explain lets just say its essentially a todo organizer.  So the frontend would be a calendar showing what is due on each day.  Or perhaps list views of that information, etc.  The "back-end" as I had called it would be something that is storing to a Firebird database.  the RoR calendar site would then request information about Todos, or todos on a given day or date range, perhaps information about certain contacts.  All of which is stored in Firebird.</p>
  
  <p>I do realize you can do the front-end part in delphi as well but I'm trying to phase out Delphi in favor of newer languages.</p>