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SQL-based replacement for Filemaker Pro?

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JavaJones:
Ruby is great, but it's really totally wide open. It's a reasonably generalized coding environment, not a specific tool for creating Filemaker-like visual databases. If we just wanted a raw database I could probably manage that with simple direct SQL access and maybe output to one big form with all fields accessible or something (this basically becomes like a simplified version of PHPMyAdmin perhaps). What we need though is a way to organize, customize and visually style the database interaction, entry and display fields, buttons, etc. as well as created limited functionality like buttons that move from one "layout" (or "form") to the next or fields that calculate based on the values of other fields.

Filemaker Pro really is pretty much the ideal product for us so it makes a very good model for the kind of product features we need in a replacement. Filemaker really does almost everything we need from a database management perspective. It's just that we are coming to the point where lots of systems need access to the data to automate or expand services and functionality and Filemaker is not great at doing this, especially with web-based applications like forums, etc.

Anyway the suggestion is appreciated but I think using something as low-level as Ruby is really more than we need, and would entail more work than we have time to invest.

- Oshyan

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