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

I recently did an all-ruby website for my company.  I have done sites in
PHP, Perl, HTML, etc.  This one was the easiest to put together, and has
more features than any previous.  The site is completely integrated with a
backend database.  We spent some time making some backend classes that
really sped up developement.  We have a database connection pool manager,
a dynamic menu builder based upon a user's access priviledges.  Every
script has a mechinism for deteminig if a user can use a certain feature
or not depending on their access priveledges.  All forms are driven by
data-structures (not just static).  All in all it was a real pleasure
putting this site together.  I would highly recommend using mod_ruby.  Of
all the languages I've used to do this sort of thing in the past, Ruby
lends itself extremely well.  The code is very easy to read/understand and
write, and I believe more powerful.

~ John


On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Ruby Baby wrote:

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> I run a website that's all PHP now, but was due for
> a total re-write anyway.  (The old code is a mess.)
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> It's more MVC style - where the code comes first and
> outputs HTML from templates - NOT embedded code inside HTML.
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> I love Ruby so much that it's very tempting to write
> my new version in Ruby (mod_ruby + Apache).
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> But I wonder if anyone who has already done a whole
> interactive website in Ruby/modruby could share their
> experience with it?
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> 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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