From: Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <vanweerd@...>
Date: 2005-01-07T00:49:31+09:00
Subject: Re: What's missing? (was Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity)

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 00:08:53 +0900, Douglas Livingstone
<rampant@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

What of eruby (http://www.modruby.org) or the cgi library?
-- 
Nicholas Van Weerdenburg