[Cialug] Iowa Ruby Brigade

[Eric Junker]

carl-olsen at mchsi.com wrote:
> Can I install Ruby on any kind of operating system and will it 
> interfere with anything I currently have running?

Ruby itself is a programming language. Ruby on Rails is a web framework.
  I don't think installing either would interfere. Ruby comes with its 
own small webserver called WEBrick for development and testing so you 
aren't required to make any changes to Apache.

> In other words, how much work do I have to do to start playing with 
> it?

You can use this browser based Ruby interactive shell to play around 
with Ruby: http://tryruby.hobix.com/

As far as web programming goes ruby has a CGI module and ERB templates 
but all the "cool kids" are using Ruby on Rails.

Eric