From: Jonny Noog <jonnynoog@...>
Date: 2008-11-28T12:02:03+09:00
Subject: Re: eRuby/erb outside of Rails

Post Tudbc wrote:
> Try the free tool TudbcJRubyServlet
> 
> http://www.tudbc.org/tudbcjrubyservlet
> 
> which is backed by the robustness of any Java EE Servers (e.g. 
> GlassFish, Tomcat, Resin, etc.)

Thanks for the suggestion. From reading a bit on your site, it sounds 
really cool. But honestly, I'm not sure if my current knowledge would be 
up to a trip through the Java world. I've never had any exposure to 
JRuby or Tomcat or really anything directly related to Java. How 
involved is setting up and using JRuby + Tomcat + tudbcjrubyservlet + 
Rails or erb compared to say, MRI + apache + mongrel + Rails (which I do 
have experience with)?


Rob Biedenharn wrote:
> On Nov 27, 2008, at 7:10 PM, Jonny Noog wrote:
> 
>> functionality, but I prefer Ruby and in this case, I think Rails might
>> allows embedded Ruby to be interpreted and served performantly and
>> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
> It definitely depends on your hosting environment.  On Joyent, it's as
> simple as having:
> 
> $ cat web/public/.htaccess
> Action eruby-script /cgi-bin/eruby
> AddHandler eruby-script .rhtml
> 
> And then and file with an .rhtml extension will be run through eruby.
> 
> -Rob

Hmm, well it's likely that this website (plus a few others) will be 
running on a Linux VPS (probably CentOS). So I can pretty much to what I 
want with it. It's really down to how much time and effort it will take 
to get stuff set up and working the way I want. The VPS will no doubt 
already come with PHP/apache/MySQL already installed and configured, but 
I was really hoping that there is a relatively easy way for me to:

a) Get some reliable standalone embedded Ruby action happening now (a la 
mod_php).

b) Allow for the use of Rails in the future.

But if things begin to look too involved, then I may just take the 
pragmatic appraoch and stick to PHP for now.
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