From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-04-21T08:39:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Setting up a wiki when you don't have root

In article <329EBA15-931D-11D8-BAEB-000A958E6254@loudthinking.com>,
David Heinemeier Hansson  <david@loudthinking.com> wrote:
>> In fairness, Ruby's new super-cool Instiki is even simpler, but you 
>> can't
>> usually count on Ruby being installed. In contrast, perl is almost 
>> always
>> available on the server.
>
>Actually, Ruby 1.6.7 is available on a great many servers. If someone 
>would like to submit a compatibility patch that would dump Instiki 
>down, it would be even easier. Of course I'd have to include WEBrick 
>and any other libraries that wasn't available at 1.6.7 time, but that's 
>not too bad.

Turns out we do have Ruby 1.6.7 available.  I think we could convince the 
sys-admins to install 1.8.1, but I don't think we could  get them to set 
up the wiki for us.  

Phil