From: E S <eero.saynatkari@...>
Date: 2005-01-07T03:14:08+09:00
Subject: Re: What's missing? (was Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity)

> L�hett�j�: Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <vanweerd@gmail.com>
> Aihe: 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?

I've found www.narf-lib.org a good simple framework. 

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