From: Potchanat Samermit Date: 2002-10-01T11:19:06+09:00 Subject: RE: Ruby, Client/Server and Web Application Thank you, Mikkel. I will look into it. I hope someone will make it so we can do things easier right from Ruby with WebApp. Please do advise as you see fit. I feel like I want to use Ruby in what I am working on. If it needs to go PHP, I might just have to go that route too, while not using Java. Still need to learn. Thanks. Potchanat -----Original Message----- From: MikkelFJ [mailto:mikkelfj-anti-spam@bigfoot.com] Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 7:19 PM To: ruby-talk ML Subject: Re: Ruby, Client/Server and Web Application "Potchanat Samermit" wrote in message news:003c01c268d8$ce282fc0$6800a8c0@samermit1... > I am new to Ruby. Just started to look at it. I did Smalltalk and now > have been using Java and EJB. I wonder what it would be like to use Ruby > for distributed and Web Application programming. Could someone help give > me some light? Looking at Ruby warms my heart since it seems to have a > lot of the old Smalltalk in it. Welcome to Ruby Phil Thomson (a regular in this group) wrote an article in a recent Dr.Dobbs journal issue on using Ruby for distributed processing. It's so embarrasingly easy in Ruby that no-one really pays attention to it, it's just a tool. Since the article was published, someone wrote Ruby Inline for embedding C in Ruby, compiling C as required - meaning it is very easy to use Ruby to distribute C source for CPU intensive processing. Web-programming is a bit mixed. Ruby does not have as much infrastructure as you may find in Java or dedicated Web langauges - and worse, not many hosting services support Ruby. That said, the language is well suited for Web programming. It has decent CGI and, I belive, Fast-CGI support. There is mod_ruby, and embedded Ruby (eRuby) for Apache. So you can certainly do web. Yet you frequently see Ruby people using PHP for Web because they are pragmatic and sometimes find other tools useful too. Regards Mikkel