From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2008-11-28T22:19:05+09:00
Subject: Re: eRuby/erb outside of Rails

Jonny Noog wrote:
> I have read about mod_ruby and mod_rails. Some sources seem to suggest
> that mod_ruby "has never really worked properly", while others seem to
> suggest otherwise. I have not been able to ascertain whether mod_rails
> would allow the use of eRuby/erb without Rails to go with it.

Also have a look at erubis: http://www.kuwata-lab.com/erubis/

Now, the /cgi-bin/eruby approach mentioned above is one to get you 
started; but you'll be spawning a new ruby interpreter for each request.

If that becomes painful, and you don't fancy mod_ruby, then I suggest 
FastCGI as the way to go (with mod_fcgid). I don't know if either eruby 
or erubis has out-of-the-box FastCGI support, but it shouldn't be too 
hard to make a wrapper which reads the template and expands it, in a 
loop. With a bit of mtime checking you could even cache the parsed 
templates.

Regards,

Brian.
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