From: as646@... (John Robson)
Date: 2001-05-08T00:40:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14785] Re: Ruby and Web Applications


"Chris Montgomery" (monty@astutia.com) writes:
> Greetings from a newbie,
> 
> 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?

Other than www.ruby-lang.org (the home of Ruby) which runs on Apache, Debian
Linux, Ruby, mod_ruby and eRuby, I have yet to see another Ruby site. 
ruby-lang.org is a simple site and doesn't do much though :), so it's hard to
gauge how fast or stable it is from the outside looking in.

I'm afraid Ruby is too NEW.  Most ISP now have Perl and PHP available for the
developers, but when you ask them for Ruby, you get a blank stare
("Huh?").  The corporate environment is even more conservative; the
managers are clueless, the sysadmins are overloaded with critical apps to
maintain, they don't have time nor do they want to experiment with the
latest new "toy".  It takes time.  I suggest that anyone who has developed
a site in Ruby, maybe they can e-mail the webmaster at ruby-lang.org and
post their URL there.  Over time, examples of Ruby sites are listed.