From: pharrington <xenogenesis@...>
Date: 2009-12-08T08:05:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Wordpress Port

On Dec 7, 4:41 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <mar...@marnen.org> wrote:
> David Masover wrote:
> > On Monday 07 December 2009 11:00:08 am hjast wrote:
> >> Has there any been an effort to make a ruby Wordpress port? I am a
> >> rails and ruby guy, and now have to do a blog in Wordpress. PHP is an
> >> ugly langauge and I wish I could use ruby for extending and looking at
> >> the architecture.
>
> > If you're wanting a way to work with Wordpress, the PHP app -- for
> > example,
> > writing a Wordpress plugin in Ruby -- I don't think there really is one,
> > though that's not entirely a bad idea. Just mostly a bad idea.
>
> [...]
>
> JRuby and Quercus, maybe? :)
>
> Seriously, I'm not even sure it's that bad of an idea.  Writing Java in
> Ruby certainly works well; why shouldn't writing PHP in Ruby?
>
> Of course, that's only if you're stuck with Wordpress to begin with.  I
> agree that something like Mephisto is probably a better choice.
>
> Best,
> -- 
> Marnen Laibow-Koserhttp://www.marnen.org
> mar...@marnen.org
> --
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Well, JRuby is Ruby running under the JVM, which I wouldn't quite call
"writing Java in Ruby." The JVM has alot going for it: fantastic
performance, rich set of libraries, everything runs it, threads that
run in parallel, etc. I don't see any of those benefits for trying to
get Ruby interoperability with PHP.