T. Onoma wrote:

> Please recommend Ruby-supporting web hosts. I am currently looking at the 
> following providers in this order of preference:
> 
> Iniquinet
> http://www.iniquinet.com/web_hosting.php
> http://www.iniquinet.com/ruby_hosting.php
> 
> RootR.net
> http://rootr.net/hosting.html
> http://rootr.net/ruby.html
> 
> OCS Solutions
> http://www.ocssolutions.com/hosting.php
> http://www.ocssolutions.com/hosting/ruby.php
> 
> Any info about these or others is greatly appreciated!
> 

I've not run the gammit of Unix/Linux/BSD hosting solutions, and quite 
frankly there are A LOT to choose from.  But of the two I've used, both 
of which did NOT offer Ruby/eRuby/mod_ruby, I've been able to 
successfully go in and install Ruby locally in my own account and run Ruby.

mod_ruby would not be available as an option without setup help from the 
company admins.  But at Interland and LunarPages, at both of which I've 
used normal Linux/Apache shared hosting packages offering PHP, Perl (and 
ASP at LP) only, my own installation of ruby/eRuby has worked just fine. 
  (I'm sure LunarPages would be interested in knowing how I accomplished 
this without shell access, but it wasn't hard at all with a little 
initial help from Perl.)

So you could try this approach.  This has worked fabulously for me. 
Just don't expect any support from them of course.

-ceo