From: Kirk Haines <khaines@...>
Date: 2004-08-08T03:04:21+09:00
Subject: Re: CGI programming

> > What do you use when programming Ruby/CGI? Do you just use straight Ruby
> or
> > do you use any templating modules?
> >
> > I am running Apache on Windows XP.

I personally use Iowa.  Iowa is an object based web application & dynamic 
content framework that runs on both *nix and Windows platforms.  It features 
seperation of code from layout.  In that contiuum it inhabits a place 
somewhere between Rails and CGIKit, with much greater seperation than Rails, 
but less forced seperation than CGIKit requires.

Iowa templates are simple.  They are straight HTML with a small amount of 
very simple but flexible special markup.  Templates create components, and 
components are embedable in other components.  In this way one can create 
reusable widgets.

i.e. a conditional:

<if oid="has_user?"><p>Welcome @user!</p></if>

It can be found at http://rubyforge.org/projects/iowa

Anyway, it is what I use.  I've been using it for over two years on a 
variety of successful production web sites and web based applications from 
small to large.

If you want to check it out, it's at Rubyforge:

http://rubyforge.org/projects/iowa

Feel free to email me with any question.


Kirk Haines