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Re:Ewww, You Use PHP? by davidw on Friday October 22, 2010 @09:18AM (#1819558)
Nitpick: "Ruby was in its infancy" - Ruby was created in 1995, and was certainly quite usable in 2004. I think maybe you mean Rails, which was released in July of that year according to wikipedia.
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Re:Ewww, You Use PHP? by pilif on Friday October 22, 2010 @09:28AM (#1819587)
I meant web development with ruby.

In 2004 you still only had cgi/erb for web development. While ruby was really cool, it just wasn't practical for web development.

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Re:Ewww, You Use PHP? by jamesbritt on Friday October 22, 2010 @05:31PM (#1821604)
Well, you had Cerise and IOWA for Ruby Web frameworks then, also Wee, though Wee was not so robust. But IOWA was quite capable of fast, scalable Web sites. For whatever reasons it never got the attention it deserved.
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