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Re: So, when I want to create a good web app, where to start?
JoeyNL wrote:
> By the way, when you created a web app, can you export it to any webserver, or has Ruby
> to be installed in the root directory, or can you install it yourself.
For a Ruby-based web application, Ruby must be installed somewhere on the server; generally it will be somewhere like /usr/bin/ruby, /usr/local/bin/ruby or similar. This is something your host must do, instead of you, because often the root configuration of the web server must be changed to accomodate the use of a new scripting language.
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#17 2005-11-02 19:45:17
- davidm
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Re: So, when I want to create a good web app, where to start?
Just like JoeyNL, I am no developper but like him I have been thinking about getting some skills in that area to be more efficient. I’ve been wondering wether to learn php or bet on Ruby On Rails… those 37signals apps are fairly impressive, and RoR seems to gain momentum (and also, the guys@textdrive bet on it which carries a lot of weight for me), but yeah setting up something as trivial as Instiki for a Linux newbie like me is still fairly unfathomable…
Yet my bet is on RoR. Even if I can’t grasp the “setup the server” part, syntax seems fairly straightforward, the underlying logic seems to click with me… I installed Ruby but failed to install Ruby Gems and failed to run Instiki sucessfully… but I did not give it a lot of time yet… Finally, I’ll try to go the PHP way first (the present), then learn Ruby (to me, the future).
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#18 2005-11-02 19:56:59
- Joey
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Re: So, when I want to create a good web app, where to start?
I installed Ruby+gems+rails today and did this tutorial, creating a cookbook. Quite inpressive what you can do with a few lines of code ;)
I also read some Ruby basic tutorials…but I don’t like learning code…I just want to play with it :P. So I hope the cookbook and that kind of tutorials are learning me :P RoR. No, that’s not going to happen…when I have some more time I’ll learn basic Ruby.
My point of view until now: RoR is great and not that difficult :)
Regards,
Joey
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