Anything like Mason in Ruby?

ruby-talk
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Hi,

I’m interested in server-side dynamic web content. I’ve had some experience
with ColdFusion and Perl. I have a Mason book coming in the mail, though I
have no experience in Mason, yet. I’m curious what is the best Ruby-ish way
to do server-side processing. I’ve looked at mod_ruby and eruby. Is this
the closest match to Mason?

My goal here is to compare the ease of producing DB-based content using
ColdFusion (which I’m experienced with through work) with using Mason or
using a Ruby solution at home. My home needs don’t need scalability. It
only needs to be easy and quick to write.

[For those who don’t know, Mason is a Perl solution for server-side
processing with Apache.]

Drew

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[For those who don’t know, Mason is a Perl solution for server-side
processing with Apache.]

Drew, you may seriously want to look at Amrita. It’s got a nice feature
set for what you want to do, I suspect. The site is:

http://www.brain-tokyo.jp/research/amrita/

Ari

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Mason is huge, complex and far more than you need for what it sounds like
you are trying to accomplish. Unless you are building something huge
and complex it’s much, much easier to stick to mod_perl without Mason,
or even better mod_ruby. For that matter, writing seperate CGI programs
is often all that’s needed.

Why, yes, I really dislike Mason.

– Matt

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On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Mills Thomas (app1tam) wrote:

I’m interested in server-side dynamic web content. I’ve had some experience
with ColdFusion and Perl. I have a Mason book coming in the mail, though I
have no experience in Mason, yet. I’m curious what is the best Ruby-ish way
to do server-side processing. I’ve looked at mod_ruby and eruby. Is this
the closest match to Mason?

My goal here is to compare the ease of producing DB-based content using
ColdFusion (which I’m experienced with through work) with using Mason or
using a Ruby solution at home. My home needs don’t need scalability. It
only needs to be easy and quick to write.

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