Ask your ISP to install ruby

ruby-talk
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I was thinking that I’d like to use Ruby to dynamically generte some HTML,
but my ISP didn’t have it installed.

So I sent an email this morning asking if they’d consider installing Ruby
and within an hour I got a message back saying that they had finished
installing it and to let them know if there were any problems… wow,
that’s service.

Phil

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“Phil Tomson” ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com wrote in message
news:arbot109at@enews2.newsguy.com…

I was thinking that I’d like to use Ruby to dynamically generte some HTML,
but my ISP didn’t have it installed.

So I sent an email this morning asking if they’d consider installing Ruby
and within an hour I got a message back saying that they had finished
installing it and to let them know if there were any problems… wow,
that’s service.

Phil

My goodness! My ISP always says “HUH?”…

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So I sent an email this morning asking if they’d consider installing Ruby
and within an hour I got a message back saying that they had finished
installing it and to let them know if there were any problems… wow,
that’s service.

I asked my ISP to install it (plus mod_ruby), and they said I could compile Ruby
myself, and run it as CGI, but that they wouldn’t run it globally.

(This was after I had already compiled it myself, so maybe they just figured out
what I was doing and decided to just let it go …)

I don’t get the bennies of mod_ruby (nor the problems of changed code that
doesn’t get reloaded), but I do get complete control over the version installed.

James

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Phil

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Sorry, but my ISP (www.rootr.net) not only already has Ruby installed, but
has a great intro page on it with pointers to some of the more popular
community resources.

Not only that, better than all the $10/month type hosting plans I’ve ever
seen/used, these guys seem to really, really get security.

-michael

5

My ISP for HaloStatue.ca gave me gcc (:

-austin
– Austin Ziegler, austin@halostatue.ca on 2002.11.18 at 20.48.25

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On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 07:48:34 +0900, Phil Tomson wrote:

I was thinking that I’d like to use Ruby to dynamically generte
some HTML, but my ISP didn’t have it installed.

So I sent an email this morning asking if they’d consider
installing Ruby and within an hour I got a message back saying
that they had finished installing it and to let them know if there
were any problems… wow, that’s service.