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Ruby is awesome AF.

Rails has been going through a midlife crisis.

I know there's other frameworks but Rails is awesome other than how they bowed down to different JS frameworks for asset pipelines in 5 and 6. This is spose to be better in 7, but I still get weird edges cases and and work tough them in code, and my therapist.

Sometimes I long for PHP, I left right as it was getting proper, Composer, Yii (I know most Laravel fans, but w/e), being able to just hot editing 1 line of code without full deploys.

Yeah, Many people will tell you how surprised they are that I advocated Ruby and Rails, and im fine with that.

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>Sometimes I long for PHP, I left right as it was getting proper, Composer, Yii (I know most Laravel fans, but w/e), being able to just hot editing 1 line of code without full deploys.

Same here. Sometimes I wish there is something that takes the best of Ruby and PHP.

You can CGI ruby and run it just like PHP cant you?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2245634/setting-up-ruby-...

> Same here. Sometimes I wish there is something that takes the best of Ruby and PHP.

What would this language look like, and what features would it have?

Subset of Ruby Syntax and PHP like deployment.

Hold my beer...

Wait... I was going to cobble up something together with CGI, but then recalled that a) I did that already for a small internal project previous company† and b) mod_ruby is still a thing! I may still give it a shot just for kicks.

https://github.com/mikeowens/ModRuby

† CGI was good enough because it did not need that much perf, so I never needed to go FCGI/mod_ruby. Instead of FTP deployment was done via `git push` to a bare repo + server side post-receive git hook to checkout and atomically replace files (I was kinda mimicking Heroku there)

Holy! Ok I am going to check this out when I have time.

I find Ruby very good at gluing togheter multiple parts or for quick prototyping someting.

The metaprogramming is just too good.

I always thought ruby is to web projects what python is to data science.

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