From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2008-07-09T02:32:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby without rails?

Tim Pease wrote:

> 
> If your intention is to generate static pages then I would recommend 
> webby <http://webby.rubyforge.org> or one of the other static website 
> generators written in ruby (nanoc, webgen, rassmalog).

I second that.  Webby is quite cool.

> 
> If you are going to connect to a database and serve dynamic content, 
> then you could look into some of the rails alternatives: merb, ramaze, 
> iowa, camping.


Also quite true.  There are several Ruby Web frameworks that, like Ruby, 
are light yet powerful; migrating from a Webby site to a Ramaze site 
(should you decide you need a DB back-end) would be trivial.



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