From: Mat Schaffer <schapht@...>
Date: 2006-07-26T23:31:36+09:00
Subject: Re: eRuby: A tutorial on using Ruby on the web


On Jul 26, 2006, at 9:45 AM, tesla wrote:

> A group (three) of us wanted to learn Ruby but we decided that  
> Rails  was no
> the way to do it. We could not find anything on getting started  
> with using
> web oriented Ruby we took a bit of time to do a tutorial. It covers  
> how to
> set up a PC and a shared host for eRuby scripting.
>
> It is windows oriented because that is the common ground for us  
> all . (two
> of us are windows and lotus network admins) We tried  to make it   
> newbie
> friendly. Hopefully it will spark some more interest in Ruby from  
> others
> coming from PHP and other scripting languages.
>
> http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/node/3094

Nice work!  I'm always happy to see more tutorials covering this  
angle.  I like the use of CGI to get the parameters, but I'd really  
like to see more documentation for the Apache:: set of classes, since  
they're already included when you hit the .rhml (IIRC).

Either way, thanks!
-Mat