Dot Smidt wrote:
> Hello, everyone. Today I picked up Ubuntu User magazine, and I happened
> upon an article on Ruby, which brought me here.
> 
> I am looking for a detailed answer about what can be done with Ruby.
> First, if someone has the time, could you please look at this.
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/parchment/
> 
> Is it possible to do this with Ruby. I understand the language itself is
> very capable, but I am looking for a detailed yes or no answer. The idea
> is to have an entire webpage with an interactive interface. The example
> above uses a combination of programming technologies to provide this.
> Does Ruby have the capability to create controls or web components that
> are pretty much a cli (command line interface) which can be exposed to a
> browser. I am not too knowledgeable about scripting languages and CGI. I
> know a server side language like PHP can NOT do this. How about
> Ruby/CGI, etc.

Ruby is a server-side language just as PHP is.  The only client-side 
language you can rely on is JavaScript.

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