[#37231] Announcing New Ruby Book Under Development! — <robert.calco@...>

Everybody:

31 messages 2002/04/02
[#37250] Re: [ANN] Announcing New Ruby Book Under Development! — "John" <jyeung@...> 2002/04/02

Have you checked out?

[#37279] About efficiency — Jean-Hugues ROBERT <jean_hugues_robert@...> 2002/04/02

[#37289] Re: About efficiency — nobu.nokada@... 2002/04/03

Hi,

[#37291] Re: About efficiency — Sean Middleditch <elanthis@...> 2002/04/03

On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 20:16, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

[#37232] seeking to understand... — Mark Probert <probertm@...>

38 messages 2002/04/02
[#37255] Re: Ruby, python, perl, ... — Chris <chris@...> 2002/04/02

In article <87d6xhaoif.fsf@jenny-gnome.dyndns.org>,

[#37281] Is eval a code/design smell? — "Chris Morris" <home@...>

I seem to have an inherent distaste for eval, but I don't know why. I've

51 messages 2002/04/03
[#37323] Re: Is eval a code/design smell? — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...> 2002/04/03

On Wed, 03 Apr 2002 00:15:10 GMT, "Chris Morris" <home@clabs.org> wrote:

[#38034] Re: Is eval a code/design smell? — Ian Macdonald <ian@...> 2002/04/11

On Wed 03 Apr 2002 at 20:35:30 +0900, you wrote:

[#38045] Re: Is eval a code/design smell? — Sean Middleditch <elanthis@...> 2002/04/11

On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 01:40, Ian Macdonald wrote:

[#38061] Re: Is eval a code/design smell? — Ian Macdonald <ian@...> 2002/04/11

On Thu 11 Apr 2002 at 22:07:03 +0900, you wrote:

[#38063] Re: Is eval a code/design smell? — Sean Middleditch <elanthis@...> 2002/04/11

On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 12:06, Ian Macdonald wrote:

[#38064] Re: Is eval a code/design smell? — ts <decoux@...> 2002/04/11

>>>>> "S" == Sean Middleditch <elanthis@awesomeplay.com> writes:

[#38066] Re: Is eval a code/design smell? — Sean Middleditch <elanthis@...> 2002/04/11

On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 12:25, ts wrote:

[#38067] Re: Is eval a code/design smell? — ts <decoux@...> 2002/04/11

>>>>> "S" == Sean Middleditch <elanthis@awesomeplay.com> writes:

[#38068] Re: Is eval a code/design smell? — Sean Middleditch <elanthis@...> 2002/04/11

On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 12:42, ts wrote:

[#38069] Re: Is eval a code/design smell? — ts <decoux@...> 2002/04/11

>>>>> "S" == Sean Middleditch <elanthis@awesomeplay.com> writes:

[#38072] Re: Is eval a code/design smell? — Sean Middleditch <elanthis@...> 2002/04/11

On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 12:59, ts wrote:

[#37342] regular expression question — "Firestone, Mark - Technical Support" <mark.firestone@...>

Thanks for the help with the tread questions guys... I have one about (gasp)

16 messages 2002/04/03

[#37385] TextPad replacement for Linux? — Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>

TIA,

25 messages 2002/04/03

[#37397] Really new-new-newbie question :) — "Philip Mateescu" <philip@...>

Hi,

13 messages 2002/04/03

[#37454] ModRUBY question — George Moschovitis <gmosx@...>

Hi everybody,

18 messages 2002/04/04

[#37470] Test the result of an initialization ? — jayce@... (Jayce Piel)

17 messages 2002/04/04

[#37540] Fibonacci Number Generators — jzakiya@... (Jabari Zakiya)

Hi, I'm a newbie, coming to Ruby from a

14 messages 2002/04/04

[#37549] OO/Ruby Terminology — <james@...>

I added a wiki page for Ruby book development ...

22 messages 2002/04/05
[#37808] Re: OO/Ruby Terminology — <bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Apr.07.02@...> 2002/04/10

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[#37861] RE: OO/Ruby Terminology — <james@...> 2002/04/10

> From: bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Apr.07.02@telemark.stanford.edu

[#37944] Re: OO/Ruby Terminology — Chris <chris@...> 2002/04/10

In article <PGEPJIFLPEPOHCKEEEIKIEFADCAA.james@rubyxml.com>,

[#37963] RE: OO/Ruby Terminology — <james@...> 2002/04/10

> From: Chris [mailto:chris@cmb-enterprises.com]

[#37617] Addition to file.c (File.extension) — Mike Hall <mghall@...>

18 messages 2002/04/05
[#37736] Re: Addition to file.c (File.extension) — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2002/04/08

Hi,

[#37653] Switching from PHP to Ruby - Comments Please — Jim Freeze <jim@...>

Hi:

34 messages 2002/04/06

[#37746] ruby-dev summary 16501-16750 — TAKAHASHI Masayoshi <maki@...>

Hi all,

17 messages 2002/04/08

[#37833] Ruby as replacement for VB? — "Robb Shecter" <rs@...>

Hi,

19 messages 2002/04/10
[#37923] Re: Ruby as replacement for VB? — Michael Davis <mdavis@...> 2002/04/10

Robb Shecter wrote:

[#39153] Re: Ruby as replacement for VB? — "Euan Mee" <xlucid@...> 2002/04/26

On 11 Apr 2002, at 1:03, Michael Davis wrote:

[#37835] crypting ruby source — Ludo <coquelle@...>

Hi,

32 messages 2002/04/10
[#38280] Re: crypting ruby source — web2ed@... (Edward Wilson) 2002/04/14

Ludo <coquelle@enib.fr> wrote in message news:<3CB31298.13A44B26@enib.fr>...

[#38044] RFC - class_added callback — Michal Rokos <m.rokos@...>

Hello,

16 messages 2002/04/11

[#38046] GetoptLong question — djberg96@... (Daniel Berger)

Hi all,

16 messages 2002/04/11
[#38051] Re: GetoptLong question — "Pit Capitain" <pit@...> 2002/04/11

On 11 Apr 2002, at 22:16, Daniel Berger wrote:

[#38101] How to Make a Method Ineffective Efficiently? — William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>

Hi,

15 messages 2002/04/11
[#38135] Re: How to Make a Method Ineffective Efficiently? — Jean-Hugues ROBERT <jean_hugues_robert@...> 2002/04/12

Hello,

[#38159] Re: How to Make a Method Ineffective Efficiently? — William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...> 2002/04/12

Thanks for all the responses. I just want to add the final

[#38126] Ruby/Google — Ian Macdonald <ian@...>

Hi,

19 messages 2002/04/12

[#38136] Idea for a new shorthand — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>

OK, maybe this is an idea no one will like. Or

17 messages 2002/04/12

[#38167] Why Object#class Is Inconsistent in "==" and "case"? — William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>

Hi,

12 messages 2002/04/12

[#38199] not vs !, and vs && — <james@...>

I'm confused about the behavior of 'not'. The Pickaxe and Ruby21Days books

17 messages 2002/04/12

[#38238] Barnes & Noble putting on the squeeze — David Alan Black <dblack@...>

Hello --

11 messages 2002/04/13

[#38239] Freshmeat article about Ruby — Tobias DiPasquale <anany@...>

Hi all,

28 messages 2002/04/13
[#38447] Re: Freshmeat article about Ruby — Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...> 2002/04/16

Tobias DiPasquale wrote:

[#38457] Re: Freshmeat article about Ruby — David Alan Black <dblack@...> 2002/04/16

Hi --

[#38560] Re: Freshmeat article about Ruby — Mark Hulme Jones <mjones@...> 2002/04/18

David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> writes:

[#38561] Re: Freshmeat article about Ruby — Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...> 2002/04/18

On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 01:07:22AM +0900, Mark Hulme Jones wrote:

[#38562] Re: Freshmeat article about Ruby — Pat Eyler <pate@...> 2002/04/18

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Paul Brannan wrote:

[#38564] Re: Freshmeat article about Ruby — Jack Herrington <jack_d_herrington@...> 2002/04/18

On 4/18/02 9:30 AM, "Pat Eyler" <pate@eylerfamily.org> wrote:

[#38648] Ruby golf (FFT) Was: Freshmeat article about Ruby — Christian Szegedy <szegedy@...> 2002/04/19

Jack Herrington wrote:

[#38657] Re: Ruby golf (FFT) Was: Freshmeat article about Ruby — David Alan Black <dblack@...> 2002/04/19

Hello --

[#38331] mime type — Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>

Hi all,

15 messages 2002/04/15

[#38338] Compiling Ruby on Mac OS X — Alwyn <alwyn@...>

I've downloaded the latest Stable Snapshot and tried building it. It

18 messages 2002/04/15

[#38449] Help wanted for statvfs extension — djberg96@... (Daniel Berger)

Hi all,

35 messages 2002/04/16
[#38470] Re: Help wanted for statvfs extension — "James F.Hranicky" <jfh@...> 2002/04/17

On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 05:04:06 +0900

[#38525] resolv.rb Bug — "Roy J. Milican" <roy@...>

Greetings,

18 messages 2002/04/17

[#38627] Imlib2-Ruby 0.4.0 — Paul Duncan <pabs@...>

I just posted Imlib2-Ruby version 0.4.0, my Ruby bindings for Imlib2

12 messages 2002/04/19

[#38635] Threads creating threads creating threads... — Tobias Peters <tpeters@...>

I have already asked this question in [ruby-talk:19661], but I will ask it

12 messages 2002/04/19

[#38694] Ruby on .NET? — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>

I scanned the .net threads here and didn't see whether there is, or is not, an

37 messages 2002/04/19
[#38696] RE: Ruby on .NET? — "repeater" <repeater@...> 2002/04/19

recently found:

[#38839] building extensions-- new vs initialize — "Norman Makoto Su" <normsu@...>

Hi, I'm trying to build a ruby extension in C. While looking at the pickaxe CD

14 messages 2002/04/23

[#38910] Numberic#prev — Sean Chittenden <sean@...>

I do a lot of incrementing and decrementing of values: it'd be nice if

36 messages 2002/04/24

[#39047] A Wild Idea: What do you think? — Jim Freeze <jim@...>

Hi:

16 messages 2002/04/26

[#39122] RE: A Wild Idea: What do you think? — "Morris, Chris" <chris.morris@...>

> > OK, then let's have it in Texas. How about August? Oh, what do you

28 messages 2002/04/26
[#39123] Re: A Wild Idea: What do you think? — Jim Freeze <jim@...> 2002/04/26

On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 03:15:21AM +0900, Morris, Chris wrote:

[#39176] Re: A Wild Idea: What do you think? — Pat Eyler <pate@...> 2002/04/27

On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Jim Freeze wrote:

[#39177] Re: A Wild Idea: What do you think? — David Alan Black <dblack@...> 2002/04/27

Hi --

[#39228] RubyConf.new(2002) - ideas for agenda — "Daniel Berger" <djberg96@...>

Ok - so I'm probably jumping the gun here, but hey, what the heck.

27 messages 2002/04/28

[#39394] ncurses, mingw32 — tony summerfelt <snowzone5@...>

i've been away from ruby for awhile, it was time to dust off the pickaxe book

13 messages 2002/04/30

Re: Switching from PHP to Ruby - Comments Please

From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2002-04-08 02:48:17 UTC
List: ruby-talk #37715
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 03:44:58AM +0900, Sean Chittenden wrote:
> > Well, I'm about ready to make the switch to a Ruby based website. My
> > plans are to use FreeBSD, Apache 1.3, MySQL and Ruby in either a
> > mod_ruby/eruby or FastCGI/FCGI environment.
> 
> Congrats, you won't look back.
> 
> > Can someone comment on whether:
> >  1) A Ruby based website is easier to implement than say PHP.
> 
> That depends on your comfort levels with Ruby.  After having switched
> cold turkey from Perl to Ruby, I think it's far easier to develop
> using mod_ruby/eRuby than it is with mod_perl/PHP.  Let me put it this
> way though, in Ruby, the language gets in your way (much?) less than
> it does in PHP so I would argue that no matter what, Ruby will tend to
> be faster to develop in.
> 

Ok, help me out here. What are the possible configurations for running
a ruby website. Here is the list according to my understanding:

 1. CGI
    a. Run ruby just like you would perl or a shell.
2.  FCGI or FastCGI
    a. FCGI keeps a ruby process open to reduce startup delay?
       Are there blocking issues?
    b. FastCGI (pure ruby FCGI) can support threads in Apache 2.0
3. mod_ruby/eruby
    a. eruby allows ruby code to be embeded into any text document.
       mod_ruby lets Apache call eruby to process a ruby encoded file.
    b. Can FCGI or FastCGI be used here to speed things up, or is it
       enough that each apache process has its own ruby process.
    c. What about the future with Apache 2.0. Will threads help here?

> >  2) A Ruby based website does not have significant performance challenges.
> 
> 1) If you've got a performance problem, you've got a good problem:
>     that means you've got traffic.  Too many times I see people
>     complain about performance and they really don't need it.  If you
>     need performance, however, you can easily get that with the C
>     extensions (which are markedly easier to learn than any other
>     extension for other languages).  Anyway, for what it's worth,
>     mod_ruby has performed about 90% as fast as mod_perl, 95% as fast
>     as PHP and that's good enough for most of what I do: the rest of
>     the time I use native C modules.
> 
> >  3) Session management can be done as implicitly with or without 
> >     cookies as PHP4.
> 
>     Check out CGI.rb, it should have what you're looking for.  -sc

I did, but I am looking for a shorter answer. In PHP4, I can write
code that uses sessions, where the session ID is obtained from a cookie
or a GET/POST variable if cookies are turned off by the user.
In addition, if a user has cookies turned off, PHP4 will rewrite the URL so the
session ID is in the URL. Since I don't won't to require cookies, this
it a very nice feature to have. Does session.rb/mod_ruby do this? That
is, rewrite URLs when cookies are turned off and collect session id's
from either cookies or GET/POST variables?


Thanks
-- 
Jim Freeze
If only I had something clever to say for my comment...
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