From: "Mark J. Reed" <mreed@...>
Date: 2004-02-20T23:14:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on Windows Apache Help

Chris Morris <chrismo@clabs.org> writes:
>Another big picture alternative is to build your app into a Drb server 
>and keep your cgi script pretty bland -- then you can keep your app 
>running in a separate process.

Well, it's not really a web application, just web pages with some dynamic
elements, done in mod_ruby+eruby - because I like Ruby. :)  I have to admit
that if I were writing an actual web app I would be more likely to use Java.  I
love Ruby the language, but ruby the implementation doesn't seem quite stable
enough for production use, IME.  Between 1.6 and 1.8 there were several
compatibility-breaking changes, and some features are still broken in the
latest official relese (fixed in CVS, but I'm not about to run a production app
on bleeding-edge software).

But I'm not familiar with Drb.  What is it, some form of ruby app server?  
Does the name stand for "Distributed RuBy"?

-Mark