From: nonocast <nonocast@...>
Date: 2005-11-06T16:07:10+09:00
Subject: Re: can you recommend some easy ruby project for newbie?

thanks for everybody
btw, is there any project for newbie to read?


"Bill Kelly" <billk@cts.com> ????
news:002c01c5e29a$1979f0b0$6442a8c0@musicbox...
> Hi,
>
> From: "nonocast" <nonocast@citiz.net>
> >
> > i want to read some ruby code
> > it doesn't very large.just a small program.
> > something like rails is too complex to me.
> > i am a newbie.i want to know how to start.
>
> If rails is too complex, you could flip to the other
> end of the spectrum, and experiment with a "hello world"
> program using the CGI library.  This might be helpful,
> on the supposition that learning some CGI basics should
> give some insight into what frameworks like Rails and
> others are attempting to help make simpler.
>
> The WEBrick HTTP server has been bundled with the
> standard library since Ruby-1-8-0.  This would allow you
> to serve your own web pages on your local machine, to
> develop your program and learn about CGI and web
> programming.  Because CGI is a standard protocol, CGI
> programs that you develop using WEBrick will translate
> to servers like Apache, so if you have an Internet
> web host that supports Ruby (there are many to choose
> from) your CGI programs developed on your local
> computer using WEBrick, will run on the Internet, too.
>
> If you want to store your data in a database, you have
> options from the simple (Marshal/YAML -- built-in to
> Ruby) to ActiveRecord or Og or other object-relational-
> mapper services, as well as direct SQL database
> connections via DBI, . . .
>
> So you can start simple, but might find basic CGI
> learning useful, if you're interested in web programming
> and rails.
>
> Just a thought
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill
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