From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2001-05-07T23:47:32+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14772] Re: Ruby and Web Applications

On Sat, 5 May 2001, Chris Montgomery wrote:

> Having just recently been made aware of Ruby, I am interested in learning
> more about how/where the language is being used in web site applications.
> Are developers using it to build web applications? Are there any examples of
> web sites built with Ruby around to take a look at?
>
I am also extremely interested in sites that have been built
using Ruby. I do alot of development in Ruby, and
I can imagine that it would be very beneficial to
do my web development in Ruby as well.

My biggest concern is, of course, the speed of Ruby.
I have seen several posts latelty discussing this
issue. I'm not sure it is a concern though.
If Ruby is used like php with a mysql database, then
chances are you are not asking ruby to do alot of
complex computation, plus mysql's work is independent
of ruby, so db acccess is not an issue.

However, right now I'm guessing that there would be some performance
degredation if I were to switch from php to ruby.
But, this is why the post, I can only guess right now
and although I am tempted to launch into a new web project
with Ruby, instead of php, I would like to hear from others
if it is going to be worth it right now.

Jim
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