From: Brian Wisti <brian@...>
Date: 2002-05-31T08:00:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and HTML

Hey, somebody's talking about PageTemplate!

Sean's concern about parsing speed is understandable, but I haven't 
noticed any real speed problems in my own simple tests with Ruby.  Most 
worthwhile templating engines allow for some sort of file caching, and 
PageTemplate will in the next version - that's the main feature that I'm 
focussing on during the current work. It already supports in-memory 
caching, but that hasn't been applied in the limited CGI contexts that 
I've used it in.  Maybe I should install mod_ruby and see what happens :-)

Okay, back to work for me!

Brian

On Fri, 31 May 2002, Sean O'Dell wrote:

> > I've used PageTemplate (a bit), and found that I really like it.  Once I'm
> > done with my current project I think I'll go back and re-work some
> > existing sites to use it.
> 
> 
> It looked the best to me too, I think.  The only real reservation I have 
> with it is the speed of parsing in script code.  I already have my own 
> code that parses HTML for the purpose of embedding a script language 
> (one you've never heard of) so I'm think of dragging that out, cleaning 
> it up and calling Ruby from it to make a C++ module.  It functions more 
> like PHP/ASP than a template, but I could easily change that.  I think 
> I'm headed down that road.
> 
> 	Sean
> 

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