[dorkbotdc-blabber] Ardunio / RFID serial + what else?

[M at]

I'm in the process of putting together an inventory tracking project
using an Arduino and the Parallax Serial RFID Reader.. I'm trying to
decide how I should manage items.  I am building a web application
that supports REST so as long as I am on a network and can issue
commands, then I should be good to go.

My question is if I am using the serial RFID reader from parallax, can
I still use something like xport or xbee? Will the RFID use the only
serial port and make the transmission to the webserver impossible?

If so, I was thinking of writing the items to non-volatile memory and
then doing a serial dump later. I've heard about loggers in the field
that do that so it's probably possible. Right now the webapp is Ruby
on Rails so I could probably do some serial dump to the  command line,
but a real time direct connection is preferred.

Any ideas / pointers?


M@