From: Aria Stewart <aredridel@...>
Date: 2008-03-25T06:25:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby?


On Mar 24, 2008, at 3:13 PM, Gib Let wrote:
> I am currently in the planning process of making a website, and I have
> heard that Ruby is good to use, but I am a little confused as to what
> Ruby is. As far as I can tell, it's code that generates XML (I don't
> know if I'm right).
>
> I've been reading a few tutorials, and have made no sense of them.  
> What
> parts of the website do you use Ruby for? I was presuming HTML was  
> used
> for the structure, and Ruby for certain features.
>
> Can anyone shead a little light on it for me?

Ruby is a general-purpose programming language. It can generate any  
data you'd care to; it's not specific to web programming as PHP was  
intended, but you can indeed have a process running on the server,  
written in ruby, that serves HTML pages, either static or dynamically  
generated.