From: Justin Collins <justincollins@...>
Date: 2009-06-20T05:59:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby like Php

Giuseppe Caruso wrote:
> Tony Arcieri wrote:
>   
>> Phusion Passenger works much like PHP in that you can just point Apache 
>> at
>> any Rack-based application and Passenger will automagically make it work
>> just like PHP.
>>     
>
> Tony, please, edit the post to delete my email address… :P
>
> I mean, is there a way to use Ruby like I can do on every webhosting 
> service out there?
> i.e. why I can't just write:
>
> <p>What time is it? it is <%= Time.now %></p>
>
> like I can do with Php?
>   

You can do that because they have mod_php set up for you. If your 
hosting service does not have mod_ruby, but you have shell access, you 
may be able to (as I have) set up eruby to be used for .rhtml files 
through your .htaccess file.

-Justin