From: "Guy N. Hurst" <gnhurst@...>
Date: 2002-04-07T04:51:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Switching from PHP to Ruby - Comments Please

Jim Freeze wrote:
> ...
> Can someone comment on whether:
>  1) A Ruby based website is easier to implement than say PHP.
>  2) A Ruby based website does not have significant performance challenges.
>  3) Session management can be done as implicitly with or without
>     cookies as PHP4.
> 
> I haven't done any web ruby work, so I apologize if my
> questions appear uninformed.
> 

You didn't ask this, but if you use mod_ruby, then you will
have to take into account that the interpreter cannot be 
re-initialized. This means scripts will affect each other.
For example, if one script does a "require", then it will
be available to all future scripts including those not expecting
it. This has already bitten someone doing web work with ruby,
so beware. Also, mod_ruby is still considered unstable.
You may not notice this for simple cases, though.

I myself use ruby as a suexec CGI when I use it for web work.
Of course, that will make it slower, but it is stable and secure.


Guy N. Hurst