From: junderdown@... (Jason Underdown)
Date: 2002-08-27T05:00:19+09:00
Subject: Ruby Based App Server

I posted a similar question a few days ago, but didn't get any
responses, so I'll try again.

I'd like to know what the Ruby community thinks of app servers,
especially whether a Ruby based app server might be a good idea?  Or
perhaps someone is already working on this?

I've worked on web applications built on the J2EE platform as well as
web applications done in Perl and PHP.  Although I think Ruby is a
better choice in many respects than Perl and PHP for web applications,
it doesn't have the database abstraction capabilities that you get
with EJBs in a Java app server.  Of course there are less heavy-duty
ways to abstract access to a database than creating an app server, but
providing a framework for component based database access might be the
killer app that would make Ruby the language/platform of choice for
web applications.

What does the Ruby community think?