Ruby Challenging JSP On Web Development

JavaServer Pages has been in the web developer arsenal for several years, but "Ruby on Rails" author Bruce Tate thinks Ruby may offer a better approach to web page development. Java has been good to web developers over the past few years. Through the use of the Servlet API released by Sun, developers could include Java code in JavaServer Pages. Dynamic web pages for sites like catalog retailers flourished. I worked on one of those for a few years, mostly as a system administrator. My introduction to Solaris came by way of the IT department's VP, who suggested I use my next three weeks to learn how to admin Solaris 2.6. My skills on the web side were mostly HTML and Perl. I learned enough about JSP and Servlets to help developers debug those on occasion, and alter existing ones to do new things. Thankfully, Eclipse these days: I'm not jealous of you. Really.) Author Ruby on Rails have grown into what looks like the next best thing when it comes to a framework for developing web applications. Tate online. Tag: Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for murdok covering technology and business.