From: rich@... (Richard Kilmer) Date: 2001-09-11T21:20:38+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:21092] Re: new ruby web environment Todd Gillespie wrote in message news:<9n8mmp$k12$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>... > 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... This is incredibly good news...AOLServer is extremely small (500k for Win32) and one of the fastest I've ever used. This combination could be a great basis for a Ruby application server :-) > > 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. Could you build this to run on Win32 as well as Linux?