From: Douglas Livingstone <rampant@...>
Date: 2005-01-07T00:08:53+09:00
Subject: Re: What's missing? (was Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity)

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 21:42:00 +0900, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> So ... what's missing, from your perspective?

Raw output from Ruby to the console is easy, but getting output to a
web browser without using Rails is just a sea of Apache's 500 errors
for me. (I'm looking at moving from PHP to Ruby.)

Right now I can't use Ruby without Rails. I guess that means a couple
of days hacking Rails, but it should be easy with just Ruby. A
"require" or an "include" at the top of a Ruby file to get
browser-friendly output would be magic.

Browser-friendly error messages would be *very* helpful; knowing what
is wrong would be easier to work with than just getting a 500 error.

Thanks,
Douglas