From: Phlip <phlip2005@...>
Date: 2009-03-06T04:28:32+09:00
Subject: Re: CGI newbie

Sam wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am starting a personal project to build a configuration webpage for a 
> small router device.  Half of it is already done in perl cgi by someone 
> else.  I want to rewrite that and add to it using ruby and cgi.  Does 
> anyone have some good resources for rubg cgi programming?  I am sorta 
> new to ruby and very new to cgi.  Or possibly should I just stick with 
> the perl cgi that is already partially implemented?

Speaking from copious personal experience with raw CGI in both Perl and Ruby...

...Rewrite the app using Ruby on Rails. You will spend very little time 
twiddling with the raw HTTP messages, and you will find re-implementing the 
actual logic very easy.

If you try to replicate this program in Ruby, it would not be much of an 
improvement over Perl.

-- 
   Phlip