Re: has anyone made an all-Ruby website? how'd it go?

Well, I have done the first 30 percent or so of
a project like you describe (redoing an old PHP mess),
but got interrupted and never got back to it.

It was about a year ago, and there was a nasty bug
involving require not working reliably in mod_ruby.
I saw some talk about this and maybe it is fixed now,
but it was frustrating not to be able to have a
shared library of classes.  I presume someone will
comment and give the state of things as far as amking
require work with mod_ruby.  Everything else was
great and if you love ruby as you say, the world is
better doing things with it.

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 08:57:51PM -0800, Ruby Baby wrote:
> 
> I run a website that's all PHP now, but was due for 
> a total re-write anyway.  (The old code is a mess.)
> 
> It's more MVC style - where the code comes first and
> outputs HTML from templates - NOT embedded code inside HTML.
> 
> I love Ruby so much that it's very tempting to write
> my new version in Ruby (mod_ruby + Apache).
> 
> But I wonder if anyone who has already done a whole
> interactive website in Ruby/modruby could share their
> experience with it?
> 
> Were there any featured you really missed or any surprise
> problems?   Would you recommend it for someone else?
> 
> I know the question is vague, but I can't tell if I'd
> be making a big mistake by trying it this way, especially
> if I didn't realize until I was a month into it.
> 
> Thanks!
> 

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Tom Trebisky
MMT Observatory
University of Arizona -- Tucson
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