From: Mark Wilson <mwilson13@...>
Date: 2003-05-06T13:24:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Why is PHP so popular?  What can we learn from the PHP camp?

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I recommend the following:

Put together a standard distribution of Ruby that permits someone with 
a shared hosting account to do most of the things the developer of a 
relatively simple website would want to do. This would need to include 
mod_ruby, eruby, ruby-dbi (with mysql and postresql support) and amrita 
or some variant (for templating support, etc.).

The next step would be to persuade several of the shared hosting 
providers (Interland and Pair come to mind) to set up apache with 
mod_ruby and eruby.