From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2004-04-24T08:44:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Is Ruby is better than PHP ...

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 02:29:06AM +0900, Useko Netsumi wrote:
> It is very unfortunate that this nice young language does not consider the
> web development in mind.  I even think that if and only if Ruby creator ever
> think this thru by including web design in mind, Ruby can easily gain its
> popularity against PHP and Java because of its ease of use features, its
> consistency, its OO paradigm, and many.
> 
> Is there any work being done to cater specifically for web development?

eRuby -- embedded ruby in HTML
mod_ruby -- embed Ruby in Apache
ruby-fcgi -- Run Ruby as a FastCGI process
webrick -- Ruby's native web and network server classes
fcgi-webrick -- the bridge I wrote to use the Webrick API under FastCGI
amrita -- a nice templating system that I adore
kwartz -- another templating system
borges -- a continuation-based web development platform, so programming
	is more linear than CGI usually permits

I've given up PHP -- Code that's monstrous in PHP can be simple in Ruby.
Add in that if I design properly, with a separate set of classes or
methods for business logic, I can then convert into a native GUI app at
some point (As I intend to do with my latest app).

The high points for me about Ruby for web development: The encouragement
to use clean solutions like templating, and the string interpolation.
I'm fond of replacing PHP-ish this:

  $a = do_something();
  $b = do_something_else();
  print("<a href='$a'>$b</a>");

with a ruby this:

  puts "<a href='#{do_something}'>#{do_something_else}</a>"

Uniform access is a wonder.

Ari