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Mark de LA says
You could also run irb.bat if you had ruby installed & do something similar.(;-))

Seth says

Mark 2005-11-29 12:32:07 2176

You could also run irb.bat if you had ruby installed & do something similar.(;-))

so i'v seen ruby on rails going by a lot. is there anything we could do better with it? is it installable at spry ?

Mark de LA says
I'm sure it is installable at spry. Whether they allow a server to run on a virtual domain is a question. The test server provided is not apache. Ruby & rails does run on apache although I don't know what version. Theoretically ajax is easier, but you seem to have mastered that with live search. Installation requires a compile - that is the trickiest. If you don't have the right versions of the c compiler it barfs. I could try to install it & see what happens.

Seth says

Mark 2005-11-29 13:33:37 2176

I'm sure it is installable at spry. Whether they allow a server to run on a virtual domain is a question. The test server provided is not apache. Ruby & rails does run on apache although I don't know what version. Theoretically ajax is easier, but you seem to have mastered that with live search. Installation requires a compile - that is the trickiest. If you don't have the right versions of the c compiler it barfs. I could try to install it & see what happens.

I don't see why running on our apache virtual domain would give a solid running server side sofware any problems. This is obviously your call. i have no particular need, just curious what extra we would get. The more i see others using it and talking about it the more curious i have becom and i know you were working on it.

Mark de LA says
It would probably take a fair amount of effort to get the extra out of it. Maybe we can see what that would look like when the group UnhackTheBrain begins to need nonstandard stuff.

Mark de LA says
too bad you can't copy & paste in it.

Seth says

source: Ed Dumbill
When I moved this blog from being Zope-backed to using Rails several people got in touch to ask why. This is a brief explanation of why I've moved.

Now I've been using Rails for a while, I find its attractions have changed for me. The thrill of not having to write basic functionality over and over again has given way to more select pleasures. Writing in Ruby itself is a rewarding experience, as its idioms become plainer over time.

Sure, you can write Java or Perl in any language, and that's where I started off. But the subtle elegance of the Ruby idiom is a slowly appreciated and highly satisfying flavour. For developers who consider themselves as poets and artists too, I can't think of a better language.

... a respected endorsement, indeed

Seth says

Mark 2006-01-21 15:09:17 2176

Mark 2006-01-21 15:08:31 2176

Here's a ruby program that decodes a name into it's yetziratick numberic equivalent & then gives you some modulo equivalents.
You have to rename it something.rb for most batch uses.

Enjoy.

PS. The last 5 lines are not needed - just for different modulo equivalents.

looks pretty straight forward ... reads like Python or php ...

i wonder if its a cross between python and php. i'd like to see how it supports ajax ... but when u think about it, there is very little that happens special on the server side for ajax. How well can it be integraced with the apache server ? Thing about php is that the server runs it ... me thinks that makes it really fast. How well does it integrate with the SQL server? What makes it so special ?

Mark de LA says
I found it had an economy of words to accomplish what java can do, e.g. for numbers it can go from integers to bignum without any hastle, whereas java you have to treat bignum as objects. As far as the tutorial went, it does apache, sql, and as I recall does better with the web than java.

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