ruby servers and command line and gems... what's that! (I'm a php guy)

I'm used to working in php, where I have my .php files and all I have to do is put them in a www directory served by apache, or upload them to a php host.

Now I'm trying ruby and RoR and first I discover they don't use apache, then that there are 3 servers, webrick mongrel an lighthttpd, which I can't really understand.

Second, it's full of command lines, what for? I got no cl in php...

and gems too... well I think I get it here, they're extensions, "nicely" installed... (I don't see the point in installing anyway, shouldn't a require do the trick?)

I love ruby syntax, but prefere php for the reasons I told, probably just because I can't understand them.. anyway is it possible to work in ruby as I would in php? Using apache and that's it?

I've been trying the camping framework since rails was getting to big and powerful for my little app, but I can't get its stupid server to run. I'd like to simply copy a folder in a www directory and query the index.rb file....

I'm talking to much, sorry... bye!

Hey I found something interesting! I just realised a major difference between php and ruby: ruby han no opening tags! That means It wouldn't work like php... But I found this eRuby project that seems cool, it uses apache and seems to work just like php does.

Am I right? This might be the right way to go then! (only problem then would be find a host, wouldn't it..)

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