From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2003-01-06T11:15:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Forward: Drafting a 'The Year in Scripting Languages'

Here's my contribution to the article. Please edit and improve!

> 10.  Ruby and the web developments (mod_ruby, eruby, amrita).

	Web application development with Ruby is beginning to come into its own. Many 
quality tools are now available having reached milestone stability realeases. 
eRuby provides for embedding Ruby script directly into HTML documents, much 
like PHP, but grants the developer all the power of Ruby's object oriented 
design. Amrita (http://), an alternative to eRuby, is a HTML/XHTML tag 
attribute-based markup syntax making for excellent speration of content and 
logic. For accelerated execution, mod_ruby (http://www.modruby.net/), the 
Ruby Apache module, embeds the ruby interpreter directly into Apache, much 
like mod_perl, and is quite stable, now at version 1.0.2. There are also 
complete frameworks like CGIKit and ILE (http://virtualschool.edu/ile/) to 
speed development.  Web development with Ruby is very powerful solution and 
is beginning to displace traditional Perl and PHP scripting. Expect to see 
many new Ruby-based applications in the future!