From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2004-05-08T01:31:19-07:00
Subject: Re: Borges/Iowa/etc. vs. Webrick?

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Carl Youngblood (carl@youngbloods.org) wrote:

> Is this a valid question?  I thought that Webrick already offered some=20
> of the web application management classes (sessioning, templates etc)=20
> that these other tools do.  Am I wrong?  So far my only experience with=
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> web development in ruby is in fastcgi, which has worked well for me, but=
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> I'd like to explore other options.

WEBrick has some very nice features for building traditional web
applications, but does not include support for sessions or templates
directly.

You can get session support out of CGI.rb, and templates with erb or
RDoc.  This would allow you to write a zero-dependency web-app in Ruby.

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