[cgiapp] Ruby on Rails and CGI::Application

[Owain <suppressed>]

I read this post on Article on /.
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/04/1520227&tid=156&tid=1

which looked interesting since I am going to have a play with Ruby
(http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/20020101.html) and Ruby on Rails
(http://www.rubyonrails.com/) seems to fell rather similar to cgiapp in
a lot of senses.  I am "reading up" on Design Patterns and would like to
try out Ruby and this seems to be a good way to try.  Has anyone on the
list had a shot already and what are the main differences?

One problem I have already spotted is the likely difficulty of having
mod_ruby or ruby installed at an ISP good old Perl is ubiquitous.