[#277137] executing VIM on a remote machine? — "Gian Holland" <gianmh@...>

Is is possible with ruby to execute vim on a remote machine to edit a file?

11 messages 2007/11/01

[#277159] Who required that!? — Trans <transfire@...>

Is there any way to ask a file what other file require/load 'd it? I

15 messages 2007/11/02
[#277180] Re: Who required that!? — "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...> 2007/11/02

[#277359] Unicode illegal characters problem — "Axel Etzold" <AEtzold@...>

Dear all,

16 messages 2007/11/03

[#277377] dragons and factorials (keyboard input) — Thufir <hawat.thufir@...>

I'm getting keyboard input successfully, but I'm getting a string. I

13 messages 2007/11/03

[#277385] x=[]; x[:bla][:some_key] does not work? — Joshua Muheim <forum@...>

Hi all

24 messages 2007/11/03

[#277517] Reading a class-file and calling it at runtime. — Miss Elaine Eos <Misc@...>

I'm trying to read-in a folder full of "plug-ins" and call each of them,

19 messages 2007/11/05
[#277534] Re: [n00b] Reading a class-file and calling it at runtime. — "Sean O'Halpin" <sean.ohalpin@...> 2007/11/05

On 11/5/07, Miss Elaine Eos <Misc@your-pants.playnaked.com> wrote:

[#277579] Re: Reading a class-file and calling it at runtime. — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...> 2007/11/05

Sean O'halpin wrote:

[#277615] Faking the refering page with Mechanize — Ehud Rosenberg <ehudros@...>

Hi,

13 messages 2007/11/06
[#277617] Re: Faking the refering page with Mechanize — Konrad Meyer <konrad@...> 2007/11/06

Quoth Ehud Rosenberg:

[#277719] Language Popularity - PHP vs Ruby? — Marc Heiler <shevegen@...>

Hi,

26 messages 2007/11/06
[#277773] Re: Language Popularity - PHP vs Ruby? — Ilan Berci <coder68@...> 2007/11/06

Marc Heiler wrote:

[#277881] Re: Language Popularity - PHP vs Ruby? — Alex Young <alex@...> 2007/11/07

Ilan Berci wrote:

[#277785] Re: JRuby performance questions answered — Isaac Gouy <igouy2@...>

Quoting Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter / sun.com>:

23 messages 2007/11/06
[#277789] Re: JRuby performance questions answered — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...> 2007/11/06

[#278300] Re: JRuby performance questions answered — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...> 2007/11/09

[#278343] Re: JRuby performance questions answered — "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale@...> 2007/11/10

On 11/9/07, Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@gmail.com> wrote:

[#278385] Re: JRuby performance questions answered — "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...> 2007/11/10

Rick DeNatale wrote:

[#278397] Re: JRuby performance questions answered — Sean Surname <x3qh85202@...> 2007/11/10

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

[#277797] Is there a "||" that treats "" also as false? — Joshua Muheim <forum@...>

Hi all

15 messages 2007/11/07

[#277900] a problem related string(250 score) — Johnson Wang <99100@163.com>

How to solve this problem in Ruby????

13 messages 2007/11/07

[#277931] Windows: Scheduled Ruby script won't run — bdezonia@...

Hello all,

12 messages 2007/11/07

[#277944] how to delete array — Surjit Nameirakpam <surjit.meitei@...>

Problem

21 messages 2007/11/07
[#277952] Re: how to delete array — "Leslie Viljoen" <leslieviljoen@...> 2007/11/07

On Nov 7, 2007 10:02 PM, Surjit Nameirakpam <surjit.meitei@gmail.com> wrote:

[#277954] Re: how to delete array — Surjit Nameirakpam <surjit.meitei@...> 2007/11/07

My business logic doesn't help me find which values i have to delete but

[#277955] Re: how to delete array — Surjit Nameirakpam <surjit.meitei@...> 2007/11/07

Surjit Nameirakpam wrote:

[#277980] alternate to case; generating a list of sub-classes — Thufir <hawat.thufir@...>

The below uses pseudo-random number generation to populate an array

11 messages 2007/11/07

[#278070] local variables, eval, and parsing — furtive.clown@...

17 messages 2007/11/08
[#278076] Re: local variables, eval, and parsing — furtive.clown@... 2007/11/08

val = 44

[#278089] Re: local variables, eval, and parsing — Randy Kramer <rhkramer@...> 2007/11/08

On Thursday 08 November 2007 11:25 am, furtive.clown@gmail.com wrote:

[#278099] Re: local variables, eval, and parsing — furtive.clown@... 2007/11/08

On Nov 8, 1:10 pm, Randy Kramer <rhkra...@gmail.com> wrote:

[#278130] Re: local variables, eval, and parsing — Randy Kramer <rhkramer@...> 2007/11/08

On Thursday 08 November 2007 01:45 pm, furtive.clown@gmail.com wrote:

[#278120] 'Class.inherited' v. 'inherited' syntax inside Class — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>

How come when you redefine the inherited method in Class, you don't use

12 messages 2007/11/08

[#278171] Ruby/Fastcgi going into uninterruptible after random periods of time — "nate" <ruby@...>

Hello there -

11 messages 2007/11/09

[#278226] Current Quizmaster Retiring — James Edward Gray II <james@...>

When I started the Ruby Quiz project, I made some off-hand comment =20

28 messages 2007/11/09

[#278271] enterprise ruby — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>

I am thinking of doing a 'side by side' distro of Ruby that includes the

50 messages 2007/11/09
[#278276] Re: enterprise ruby — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2007/11/09

On 09.11.2007 21:28, Roger Pack wrote:

[#278305] Re: enterprise ruby — Lionel Bouton <lionel-subscription@...> 2007/11/10

Robert Klemme wrote the following on 09.11.2007 22:05 :

[#278415] Re: enterprise ruby — Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...> 2007/11/11

Lionel Bouton wrote:

[#278592] Re: enterprise ruby — Jay Levitt <jay+news@...> 2007/11/12

On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:32:14 -0500, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

[#278616] Re: enterprise ruby — "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...> 2007/11/12

Jay Levitt wrote:

[#278310] equivalent injecting implementations? — Trans <transfire@...>

Are these strictly equivalent? I get the feeling no, but I haven't

14 messages 2007/11/10
[#278344] Re: equivalent injecting implementations? — "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale@...> 2007/11/10

On 11/9/07, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:

[#278354] The Man or Boy Recursion Test — Werner <wdahn@...>

Hello,

17 messages 2007/11/10
[#278392] Re: The Man or Boy Recursion Test — Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...> 2007/11/10

Werner wrote:

[#278410] Re: The Man or Boy Recursion Test — Lloyd Linklater <lloyd@2live4.com> 2007/11/10

Tim Hunter wrote:

[#278453] Re: The Man or Boy Recursion Test — Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...> 2007/11/11

Lloyd Linklater wrote:

[#278458] Re: The Man or Boy Recursion Test — "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale@...> 2007/11/11

On Nov 11, 2007 9:21 AM, Tim Hunter <TimHunter@nc.rr.com> wrote:

[#278413] ruby-1.8.6-p111 build on osx 10.5.0 fails; ok on 10.4.10. bug or config? — snowcrash+rubytalk <schneecrash+rubytalk@...>

hi,

11 messages 2007/11/11
[#278447] Re: ruby-1.8.6-p111 build on osx 10.5.0 fails; ok on 10.4.10. bug or config? — "Laurent Sansonetti" <laurent.sansonetti@...> 2007/11/11

On Nov 11, 2007 1:27 AM, snowcrash+rubytalk

[#278539] comp.lang.fortran challenge — Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@...>

Having Ruby fun with the comp.lang.fortran folks:

14 messages 2007/11/12

[#278575] does Ruby has method properties — Thilina Buddhika <thilinamb@...>

In java script it is possible to something like this,

16 messages 2007/11/12

[#278643] alias_method :tap, :affect — Josh Susser <josh@...>

46 messages 2007/11/12
[#278652] Re: alias_method :tap, :affect — "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale@...> 2007/11/12

On Nov 12, 2007 12:58 PM, Josh Susser <josh@hasmanythrough.com> wrote:

[#278657] Re: alias_method :tap, :affect — furtive.clown@... 2007/11/12

[#278663] Re: alias_method :tap, :affect — "Martin DeMello" <martindemello@...> 2007/11/12

On Nov 12, 2007 11:10 AM, <furtive.clown@gmail.com> wrote:

[#278675] Re: alias_method :tap, :affect — furtive.clown@... 2007/11/12

On Nov 12, 2:31 pm, Martin DeMello <martindeme...@gmail.com> wrote:

[#278678] Re: alias_method :tap, :affect — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2007/11/12

On Nov 12, 2007, at 2:40 PM, furtive.clown@gmail.com wrote:

[#278685] Re: alias_method :tap, :affect — furtive.clown@... 2007/11/12

On Nov 12, 3:55 pm, James Edward Gray II <ja...@grayproductions.net>

[#278688] Re: alias_method :tap, :affect — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2007/11/12

On Nov 12, 2007, at 3:25 PM, furtive.clown@gmail.com wrote:

[#278691] Re: alias_method :tap, :affect — furtive.clown@... 2007/11/12

On Nov 12, 4:37 pm, James Edward Gray II <ja...@grayproductions.net>

[#278692] Re: alias_method :tap, :affect — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2007/11/12

On Nov 12, 2007, at 4:20 PM, furtive.clown@gmail.com wrote:

[#278693] Re: alias_method :tap, :affect — furtive.clown@... 2007/11/12

On Nov 12, 5:25 pm, James Edward Gray II <ja...@grayproductions.net>

[#278695] Re: alias_method :tap, :affect — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2007/11/12

On Nov 12, 2007, at 4:35 PM, furtive.clown@gmail.com wrote:

[#278705] Re: alias_method :tap, :affect — furtive.clown@... 2007/11/12

>

[#278706] Re: alias_method :tap, :affect — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2007/11/12

On Nov 12, 2007, at 5:30 PM, furtive.clown@gmail.com wrote:

[#278708] Re: alias_method :tap, :affect — furtive.clown@... 2007/11/12

On Nov 12, 6:39 pm, James Edward Gray II <ja...@grayproductions.net>

[#278710] Re: alias_method :tap, :affect — Raul Parolari <raulparolari@...> 2007/11/13

unknown wrote:

[#278742] Yielding an object and caring about the result: the cousin of Object#tap — furtive.clown@...

The idea of Object#tap is to insert a "listener" (like tapping a phone

36 messages 2007/11/13
[#278744] Re: Yielding an object and caring about the result: the cousin of Object#tap — furtive.clown@... 2007/11/13

[#278853] Re: Yielding an object and caring about the result: the cousin of Object#tap — "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...> 2007/11/13

[#278864] Re: Yielding an object and caring about the result: the cousin of Object#tap — furtive.clown@... 2007/11/13

Ara,

[#278884] Re: Yielding an object and caring about the result: the cousin of Object#tap — -a <ara.t.howard@...> 2007/11/13

[#278981] Re: Yielding an object and caring about the result: the cousin of Object#tap — furtive.clown@... 2007/11/14

Let's compare them again. I changed some variable names which will

[#278840] Why are so many people confused about "Enterprise" software? — "Kyle Schmitt" <kyleaschmitt@...>

Really, why are so many people confused about "Enterprise" software,

10 messages 2007/11/13

[#278871] Ordered Hash Usefulness — "Devi Web Development" <devi.webmaster@...>

On Nov 12, 2007 7:56 AM, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:

19 messages 2007/11/13

[#278878] recursion with blocks — Mike Perham <mperham@...>

I have a tree structure where I want to walk the structure and find a

13 messages 2007/11/13

[#278928] rails incredibly slow (update) — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>

After 24 minutes of waiting, the Welcome Aboard window came up in my

75 messages 2007/11/14
[#278936] Re: rails incredibly slow (update) — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...> 2007/11/14

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:22:29 -0500, Mohit Sindhwani

[#279008] ruby incredibly slow (update 2) — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...> 2007/11/14

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:42:17 -0500, Tanner Burson

[#279418] Re: ruby incredibly slow (update 2) — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...> 2007/11/17

On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:51:51 -0500, Bob Hutchison <hutch@recursive.ca>

[#279710] Re: ruby incredibly slow (update 2) — Bob Hutchison <hutch@...> 2007/11/19

[#279121] webrick alternative — Michael Conrad <list-ruby@...>

Hi,

20 messages 2007/11/15

[#279241] Alternative Ruby grammar — Markus Liedl <m.liedl@...>

I have spent the last months to write an alternative Ruby grammar now

23 messages 2007/11/16

[#279263] meta-class subclass relationships — Greg Weeks <greg.weeks@...>

Ruby exposes its singleton meta-classes, eg:

16 messages 2007/11/16
[#279288] Re: meta-class subclass relationships — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2007/11/16

Hi --

[#279347] Goedel (#147) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

21 messages 2007/11/16

[#279360] "instance_eval" (eg, sent to a class object) — Greg Weeks <greg.weeks@...>

I've poked around, but I don't get instance_eval at all.

11 messages 2007/11/16

[#279419] Composition: Build objects from other objects — Thufir <hawat.thufir@...>

<http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2001/jw-0608-java101.html> has

22 messages 2007/11/17

[#279539] Five Top programming Languages — bicomplex@...

Five Top programming Languages

15 messages 2007/11/18

[#279564] GUI and ruby — ulazar <ulazar@...>

I would like to create an interface GUI with ruby. What I have to use? I

17 messages 2007/11/18

[#279642] Open-ended ranges? — Clifford Heath <no@...>

Folk,

21 messages 2007/11/19

[#279670] False positives in editing data — RichardOnRails <RichardDummyMailbox58407@...>

Hi All,

39 messages 2007/11/19

[#279671] Is there an equivalent in irb to command: history in bash? — Stephen Bannasch <stephen.bannasch@...>

Is there an equivalent in irb to the command history in bash?

11 messages 2007/11/19
[#279675] Re: Is there an equivalent in irb to command: history in bash? — Chris Shea <cmshea@...> 2007/11/19

On Nov 18, 10:44 pm, Stephen Bannasch <stephen.banna...@deanbrook.org>

[#279738] Read last line of a file — Shuaib Zahda <shuaib.zahda@...>

Hi all

17 messages 2007/11/19
[#279748] Re: Read last line of a file — Xavier Noria <fxn@...> 2007/11/19

On Nov 19, 2007, at 3:38 PM, Shuaib Zahda wrote:

[#279822] RubyGems 0.9.5 — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>

RubyGems 0.9.5 adds several new features and fixes several bugs.

56 messages 2007/11/20
[#279841] Re: RubyGems 0.9.5 — Michael Greenly <mgreenly@...> 2007/11/20

I got caught by some "tired at the end of the day" stupidity...

[#279903] Re: RubyGems 0.9.5 — "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale@...> 2007/11/20

On Nov 20, 2007 12:53 AM, Michael Greenly <mgreenly@gmail.com> wrote:

[#279907] Re: RubyGems 0.9.5 — Michael Greenly <mgreenly@...> 2007/11/20

Rick Denatale wrote:

[#279921] Re: RubyGems 0.9.5 — "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...> 2007/11/20

Michael Greenly wrote:

[#279928] Re: RubyGems 0.9.5 — "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@...> 2007/11/20

On 11/20/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:

[#279935] Re: RubyGems 0.9.5 — Michael Greenly <mgreenly@...> 2007/11/20

Austin Ziegler wrote:

[#280023] Re: RubyGems 0.9.5 — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2007/11/20

On Nov 20, 2007, at 08:18 , Michael Greenly wrote:

[#280086] Re: RubyGems 0.9.5 — Sylvain Joyeux <sylvain.joyeux@...> 2007/11/21

On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 08:09:18AM +0900, Eric Hodel wrote:

[#280119] Re: RubyGems 0.9.5 — "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@...> 2007/11/21

On 11/21/07, Sylvain Joyeux <sylvain.joyeux@polytechnique.org> wrote:

[#279870] eigenvalues, eigenvectors in Ruby ??? — unbewusst.sein@... (Une B騅ue)

40 messages 2007/11/20

[#279877] read, write, seek method in a ring buffer class — Martin Durai <martin@...>

Could any body help me with creating a ring buffer class using a string.

12 messages 2007/11/20

[#279887] is there an nicer way for this expression? — Remco Hh <remco@...>

hi,

18 messages 2007/11/20

[#279896] Choosing a scripting language for scientific programming — deltaquattro <deltaquattro@...>

Hi,

14 messages 2007/11/20

[#279940] AJAX without Rails — Miki Vz <mikisvaz@...>

Hi, I'm pretty new to Ajax.

24 messages 2007/11/20
[#279953] Re: AJAX without Rails — Miki Vz <mikisvaz@...> 2007/11/20

Actually, I'm not sure I'm using eruby, I'm using mod_ruby and

[#279961] Re: AJAX without Rails — Deepak Vohra <dvohra09@...> 2007/11/20

http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/01/15/ajax_rails_tutorial/

[#279963] Re: AJAX without Rails — Miki Vz <mikisvaz@...> 2007/11/20

Isn't this precisely a rails tutorial? I'm trying not to use rails,

[#279967] Re: AJAX without Rails — Deepak Vohra <dvohra09@...> 2007/11/20

Ruby on Rails is the only Ajax framework for Ruby.

[#279984] Packet : A Pure Ruby Library for Event Driven Network Programming — hemant <gethemant@...>

Hi Folks,

11 messages 2007/11/20

[#280005] Ruby Tool Survey — Tim Bray <Tim.Bray@...>

I'm running a survey to find out what tools Ruby and Rails people

24 messages 2007/11/20

[#280091] porting java methods to ruby — Martin Durai <martin@...>

could any one help me out to solve this.

19 messages 2007/11/21

[#280232] How to give depth to arrays? — Chris Morales <primo.tertio@...>

Hi,

12 messages 2007/11/22

[#280316] Checking whether a string is a number in disguise? — Peter Bunyan <peter.bunyan@...>

I'm working on an RPN calculator (don't ask why...) and I'm having

10 messages 2007/11/22

[#280521] Iterating through class names using a block — Ge Bro <boomstik@...>

Hey all,

14 messages 2007/11/24

[#280542] Convert words to numbers and back? — Jordon Bedwell <jordon@...>

I was wondering if somebody could give me some insight and help on how

10 messages 2007/11/24

[#280645] Moving files matching Regex — Mark Woodward <markonlinux@...>

Hi all,

16 messages 2007/11/25

[#280664] specify start postion of Regexp matching — makoto kuwata <kwa@...>

Hi, all.

16 messages 2007/11/25

[#280670] Creating a rubygem - a story and help request — Phrogz <phrogz@...>

The Story

11 messages 2007/11/25

[#280708] European Ruby Conference 2008 in Prague, Czech Republic? — Karel Minařík <karel.minarik@...>

Hi all,

13 messages 2007/11/25

[#280818] Removing duplicates and substrings from an array — "Sam Larbi" <slarbi@...>

I've got an array of strings, say like:

12 messages 2007/11/26

[#280901] Most elegant way to do this? — rbysamppi@...

Are there any more elegant, concise, pithy, and more Rubyish ways of

31 messages 2007/11/27

[#280905] Bizarre Floating point errors in Ruby? Serious bug? — space.ship.traveller@...

Hi,

16 messages 2007/11/27

[#280921] FEATURE SUGGESTION: Accept default value for to_f and to_i — Mr Magpie <gazmcgheesubs@...>

I suggest that to_i() and to_f() have an optional parameter added with

13 messages 2007/11/27

[#280923] Ruby on OLPC?? — "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>

I've been seriously considering the One Laptop Per Child Give One Get

25 messages 2007/11/27

[#280947] Re: "Why I Program In Ruby (And Maybe Why You Shouldn't)" — Raul Parolari <raulparolari@...>

Trollen Lord wrote:

36 messages 2007/11/27
[#281035] Re: "Why I Program In Ruby (And Maybe Why You Shouldn't)" — MonkeeSage <MonkeeSage@...> 2007/11/27

On Nov 27, 11:42 am, Trollen Lord <trollenl...@gmail.com> wrote:

[#281081] Re: "Why I Program In Ruby (And Maybe Why You Shouldn't)" — MonkeeSage <MonkeeSage@...> 2007/11/27

On Nov 27, 3:24 pm, Trollen Lord <trollenl...@gmail.com> wrote:

[#281012] Accessing a file server with ruby — Anthony <improvcornartist@...>

This seems like it should be a simple solution, but I don't know

15 messages 2007/11/27

[#281157] Equivalent for unix "read" command in rake tasks? — Rob Lucas <roblucas@...>

Hi,

10 messages 2007/11/28

[#281174] Ruby needs continuations... — "Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality" <ihatespam@...>

Warning: I don't really know what I'm talking about so if I make any

26 messages 2007/11/28

[#281224] Im trying to make Thumbnail pics -- any suggestions? — wiz_pendases@...

Im trying to make Thumbnail pics -- any suggestions? (dont know wher

10 messages 2007/11/28

[#281273] Custom Protocol — thefed <fedzor@...>

I understand that I've asked a similar question that of custom packets.

16 messages 2007/11/28

[#281295] Creating Databases in Ruby — "Will Mueller" <will.liljon@...>

Hello All,

12 messages 2007/11/29

[#281331] Hash Sorting — Nathan Viswa <nathanv@...>

Can not understand how the block after sort works! Need help. thanks.

25 messages 2007/11/29

[#281385] Negate a character sequence in a regular expression? — crm_114@...

For the following string:

12 messages 2007/11/29

[#281432] when 1.9.0 will be released? — sayoyo Sayoyo <sayoyo@...>

Hi, does someone know when the 1.9.0 will be released?

17 messages 2007/11/30

[#281478] Postfix to Infix (#148) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

45 messages 2007/11/30

[#281519] Unicode in Regex — Greg Willits <lists@...>

This is mostly a Ruby thing, and partly a Rails thing.

33 messages 2007/11/30

Language Popularity - PHP vs Ruby?

From: Marc Heiler <shevegen@...>
Date: 2007-11-06 15:24:51 UTC
List: ruby-talk #277719
Hi,

I decided to make this _rather_ short, because I think noone wants
to read a lot of long stuff. It is still too long though.
But please believe me, I thought some time about the content.

On http://www.langpop.com/ the author has some nice graphs.
The trend seems to show that PHP is (still) a very popular
language. PHP at the same time however, is a horrible
language compared to ruby. I also do NOT at all believe
that any speed difference was an important factor for
PHP's popularity rise, nor is today. I think PHP benefitted
from a growing web world, and in return helped (foster)
the web world grow as well, together with apache and MySQL.
(I remember the perl-cgi days ... )

Ruby has Rails, but Rails needs more libraries, and Rails has a
very specific world-view (MVC) whereas PHP basically just cares
about getting the c**p outta *SQL and the "thing done", as ugly
as it may be. We could use Ruby instead for web-stuff, but Ruby
as such lacks in this regard here and there, i.e. at times
mod_ruby was just a pain to install, online-docu for ruby is
still not that good (even though a lot has changed the last 2
years... Pickaxe was wonderful but things change so quickly...)
ruby-cgi stinks a bit since it does not report where it
found an error and is rather slow compared to a .php site,
and "killer apps" like a phpBB variant for _ruby_ do not
seem to shape up _without_rails (and even with rails, it
seems a LOT of work..)

Does anyone notice .rhtml files at all on the www?
I see .php pages all the time. (Almost) all the webshops use
them (yuck). Loads of blogs use php. The basic underlying task of
what these scripts do is so simple, but ruby doesnt grow in this
area as php did. Rails alone can not be the solution to compete
with php on that area (assuming we want that) due to the lesser
flexibility (I have experienced that MANY people who learn rails
are just outright confused by ruby...):

  - Simplicity sometimes beats conventions.
  - Ugliness sometimes beats beauty.

This is NOT an anti-rails post. This is a PRO post to get
ruby fit for the www. Or at least, fitter/better!

Back to www.langpop.com for querying top 3 "jobs wanted"
notes, PHP and SQL is among them (rank 3 / rank 1).
Yuck yuck yuck. But you see it still seems popular and I dare
claim they would be better off using what is *needed* to
complete a job in an elegant fashion - with ruby instead.
At least that is my firm opinion - well written ruby code
is shorter and more elegant than well written php code
of comparable "feature set".

The del.icio.us site was also "analyzed" on http://www.langpop.com/ -
ruby and python both seem more popular than in the other grows.
That must mean, that people search for both quite a lot.
For example, Ogre3d, Blender project and the small game
engine FiFE all have usable python bindings.
No perl, no lua, no ruby on that.
But ...

PHP also wins on del.icio.us and in fact is only beaten
by _JAVASCRIPT_  !
Does this hint at the importance of the www? :)

My conclusio, even if people heard that too ofte... and I
promise to be silent about it for some months to :D

  I think the www should be one of the most important
  aspects for ruby!
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