<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Mar 5, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Scott Doty wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 02:28:26PM -0800, Eric Eisenhart wrote:</FONT></P> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">Hey, thought some of you NBLUG folks might be interested in this talk for</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">the sysadmin group.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Same location as NBLUG, but a little earlier.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; min-height: 16.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">Ruby on Rails is quite Linux friendly, and Rob Orsini's been involved with</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">NBLUG for years.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>You could kinda think of Ruby on Rails as an alternative</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">to the P in LAMP that simplifies development significantly.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; min-height: 16.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">A quick ping of the knowsphere...</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; min-height: 16.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"><A href="http://digg.com/search?s=Web+DevelopmentPlatformsBenchmarked&submit=Search§ion=news&type=both&area=all&age=all&sort=score">http://digg.com/search?s=Web+DevelopmentPlatformsBenchmarked&submit=Search&section=news&type=both&area=all&age=all&sort=score</A></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; min-height: 16.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">Top link there, RoR/CGI served one hit/second.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Ouch!</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; min-height: 16.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">(To be fair, mod_ruby weighed in at 2000 hits/sec...)</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; min-height: 16.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>-Scott</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Scott, come to the talk and you'll learn that neither CGI or mod_ruby are they "way" you deploy Rails apps. Of course you take a performance hit for having a MVC framework, but for many use cases, it's well worth it.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Rob</DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>