From: Todd Gillespie <toddg@...128.ma.utexas.edu>
Date: 2001-09-11T21:20:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21089] new ruby web environment

I recently wrote an extension to nsd (AOLserver) to embed ruby
evaluation.  For those not familiar with nsd, it is a threaded webserver
with a unified cache, DB handle pooling, a templating system, and a very
powerful system of filters.  I plan to expose all of these to Ruby.  Right
now I only have the Ns_Conn object exposed, to read out request info and
write data back to the client.  But both nsd & Ruby have been very
friendly to extension writers, so...

In the long term, well, the OpenACS guys have worked out calling methods
written in Java or Python in Tcl -- we should get into some of that.

An introduction to nsd can be found at
http://www.arsdigita.com/asj/aolserver/introduction-1

The tarball for ns_ruby is at http://www.toddbrandlabs.com/code/.

I hope to get Ns_Conn, Ns_DB, Ns_Info, and Ns_Cache finished by this
weekend.  Watch this space.