Rails - Oct 2007 - ruby servers and command line and gems... what's that! (I'm a php guy)

I''m used to working in php, where I have my .php files and all I have
to do is put them in a www directory served by apache, or upload them
to a php host.

Now I''m trying ruby and RoR and first I discover they don''t
use
apache, then that there are 3 servers, webrick mongrel an lighthttpd,
which I can''t really understand.

Second, it''s full of command lines, what for? I got no cl in php...

and gems too... well I think I get it here, they''re extensions,
"nicely" installed... (I don''t see the point in installing
anyway,
shouldn''t a require do the trick?)


I love ruby syntax, but prefere php for the reasons I told, probably
just because I can''t understand them..  anyway is it possible to work
in ruby as I would in php? Using apache and that''s it?

I''ve been trying the camping framework since rails was getting to big
and powerful for my little app, but I can''t get its stupid server to
run. I''d like to simply copy a folder in a www directory and query the
index.rb file....


I''m talking to much, sorry...
bye!


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Hey I found something interesting! I just realised a major difference
between php and ruby: ruby han no opening tags! That means It wouldn''t
work like php...
But I found this eRuby project that seems cool, it uses apache and
seems to work just like php does.

Am I right? This might be the right way to go then! (only problem then
would be find a host, wouldn''t it..)

bye


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Snaggy wrote:
> I''ve been trying the camping framework since rails was getting to
big
>and powerful for my little app, but I can''t get its stupid server
to
> run. I''d like to simply copy a folder in a www directory and query
the
> index.rb file....
Hi Snaggy. Welcome to Rails. Sorry your journey has been frustrating 
thus far; I hope it gets better.

If you''re serious about learning Rails, I''d strongly recommend
you pick
up Agile Web Development with Rails 2nd edition. You can get a PDF copy 
for $23.50 via the Pragmatic Programmers:

http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/rails/index.html

That should get you well beyond what you''re probably doing with PHP,
and
if you have any questions along the way, feel free to ask.

- Rabbit
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Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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