From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2009-11-26T04:50:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby a good choice for CGI?

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Nick Dr <nickhannum@gmail.com> wrote:
> I started reading online and people said pure CGI was way too slow b/c
> I'll be loading and disposing of all my code and db connections each
> request. That sounds bad. So what do I do? I've be told things about
> FastCGI, Passenger, mod_ruby, Rack, Sinatra, Camping, etc. and I can't
> even figure out which one I need!
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction here? My app is VERY small.
> Practically no code, no HTML output. All I need is to execute the 2 or 3
> Ruby functions I already have, on the net, with some basic
> cookie/session support. What's the least headache(and not terribly slow)
> way to do this?

I've been doing little apps with Sinatra and I'm very happy with it.
Pretty simple if you just need to implement 2 or 3 get requests:

require 'sinatra/base'
class MyClass < Sinatra::Base
  get '/' do
    "hello world"
  end
end
MyClass.run!

Any rack-based framework (as Sinatra) can be deployed in a number of
ways including Phussion Passenger (apache) or most ruby webservers,
like Thin.

Hope this helps,

Jesus.