From: Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...>
Date: 2009-11-26T05:38:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby a good choice for CGI?

David Masover wrote:
[...]

>> 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!
> 
> FastCGI is obsolete, so scratch that.
> 
> Passenger and mod_ruby are essentially the same thing, IIRC. 

You do not RC. :)  Passenger is the same as mod_rails.  mod_ruby is an 
older module, suitable for CGI scripts but not Rails (and therefore I 
would assume it's not suitable for Sinatra).

> But my
> understanding is that Passenger works with Rack, which doesn't feel at 
> all
> like CGI. So these might be deployment options, but they have nothing to 
> do
> with how you write and develop your app.
> 
> So among your options are Sinatra and Camping. Camping is by _why, who 
> seems
> to have disappeared, but I'm sure someone's maintaining it... 

There's also Merb, which is used by SproutCore sort of in the way the OP 
is describing.

> What I 
> like
> about Sinatra is the sheer simplicity of:
> 
> get '/' do
>   'Hello, world!'
> end
> 

That looks nice!  I plan to try Sinatra if I run into a project for 
which Rails is excessive.


> In your case, assuming you still want a POST, it'll probably be 
> something
> like:
> 
> post '/wherever' do
>   # build your string from the database and return it
> end
> 
> Once you've got it working on localhost, if you can find a managed host
> that'll just let you upload a Rack app (especially if they know about
> Sinatra), do that. Or you could do it yourself -- right now, I'm liking 
> nginx
> and Unicorn, which is what Github uses:
> 
> http://github.com/blog/517-unicorn
> 
> On the other hand, you could technically deploy this with Passenger. 
> Some
> people find it easier, but I like deploying with Capistrano anyway.
> 

They're not mutually exclusive.  Cap + Passenger is a great combination.

>> some basic
>> cookie/session support.
> 
> http://www.sinatrarb.com/faq.html#sessions
> 
>> What's the least headache(and not terribly slow)
>> way to do this?
> 
> My vote is Sinatra.

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