From: David Tillman <dtillman@...>
Date: 2004-01-03T03:40:07+09:00
Subject: Re: mod_ruby and win2k

John W. Long wrote:

> http://www.moriq.com/ruby/win32-apache2-ruby1.8.1-mod_ruby/

Thank you very much!


> What do you want to use mod_ruby for? Custom apache handlers or simple asp
> style scripting?

Primarily for scripting and report generation. This is a typical
web-browser-is-the-GUI type app. Parts of it will have to be Java
applets. I would like for the rest of it - configuration, setup, reports
to be in Ruby.

There are also some modules that will have no user interface but
will be responsible for performing very quick operations on data
in SQL Server. I am hoping Ruby will be at least as quick as VB for
this; however, not a mod_ruby issue.

> You might want to consider using cgi. It still works
> remarkably well for web applications and is extremely portable because you
> only need the ruby interpretor. If speed is an issue I believe fast_cgi runs
> on windows. I've heard that it is faster than mod_ruby.

Interesting. Thanks for the ideas. For some reason I just assumed that 
mod_ruby would be the quickest...

-dave