From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-10-19T11:45:23+09:00
Subject: Re: How exactly does Tryruby work?

golubovsky@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have always been curious: how does Tryruby (http://
> tryruby.hobix.com/) work: does it contain a Ruby interpreter coded in
> Javascript, or is it just a frontend to some web service?
> 
> PS I haven't tried to reverse-engineer that site understanding that
> somebody might want not to disclose their ideas, but I think my
> general question might be answered.
> 
> Thanks.

There's a 13-year-old kid watching a log file with "tail -f". When a 
request comes in, he reads it off the monitor and types it into a Mac 
Mini running "irb". Then he copies the "irb" results into an HTML page 
source that he's editing in "vi" and does ":w!" to update the HTML!