From: "F. Senault" <fred@...>
Date: 2008-03-26T02:04:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby?

Le 24 mars � 22:27, Gib Let a �crit :

> But what type of things would you use Ruby for within a website? And 
> would you use HTML for example, to create the structure, or is it all 
> done in Ruby?

Well, you can do everything in Ruby that can be done with a programming
language, including writing a webserver from scratch...

Now, the common usage is :
- templating (ala PHP / ASP - what you suggest above, a mix and match of 
    Ruby code and HTML code),
- database connections (to use with the templates),
- user authentication modules,
- interfacing with mail servers,
- miscellaneous content generation (e.g. generating images or PDF on the 
    fly).

A web framework like Rails offers to do all of the above ; some are
lighter, and some applications can be designed to work with other
systems (like user authentication modules that could be called directly
from any kind of web application).

Fred
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