From: Neil Conway <nconway@...>
Date: 2001-12-10T11:52:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28055] Re: Tomcat for Ruby was App server for Ruby?

On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 20:00, Hugo Garcia wrote:
> I really dislike JSP's although I like the concept of a servlet and all 
> that is behind the servlet spec.

Do servlets let you do anything that an Apache handler doesn't? If so,
there is already a port of the servlet API to Perl
(http://libservlet.sf.net), so it would probably be pretty easy to write
a Ruby version.

> I use servlets + XML/XSLT instead of JSP's.

Yeah, JSP is pretty horrid. Personally I really like some of the Perl
templating tools, in particular HTML::Mason. I've been thinking off hand
of porting that to Ruby and mod_ruby.

One of the things that concerns me with mod_ruby is the lack of support
for Apache 2. In order to support Apache 2 properly (with threads),
mod_perl is basically being rewritten. I know little about Ruby's
internals, but this suggests to me that to port mod_ruby to Apache 2
would require a non-trivial amount of work (if it's even possible). Is
this accurate? What would be necessary to get mod_ruby running on Apache
2?

Cheers,

Neil

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