Hi! * Ruby Baby: > it's under consideration to replace PHP with Ruby on a high-traffic > website I work with. Is a Trabant (built in GDR, maximum speed ~ 107 km/h) faster than a BWM? It depends. If the lights turn green a BMW driver sees the back of a Trabant due to the Trabant's low mass. After some hundred meters the BWM is in lead. Is Ruby faster than PHP? Again the question is: Given what scenario? Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT -- http://oss.erdfunkstelle.de/ruby/ - German comp.lang.ruby FAQ http://rubyforge.org/users/jupp/ - Ruby projects at Rubyforge