# Hoping ERb will become the server scripting language

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hoping-erb-will-become-the-server-scripting-language/115802>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 28, 2007, 5:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hoping-erb-will-become-the-server-scripting-language/115802 "2007-09-28T17:17:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![winterheat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7993a0/32.png) [@winterheat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/winterheat)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 5:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hoping-erb-will-become-the-server-scripting-language/115802/1 "2007-09-28T17:17:40Z")

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i am hoping ERb will become the scripting language of choice when it  
comes to server-side scripting…

how about

LAMRP  
XAMRPP

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**Author:** ![winterheat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7993a0/32.png) [@winterheat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/winterheat)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 5:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hoping-erb-will-become-the-server-scripting-language/115802/2 "2007-09-28T17:30:08Z")

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On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 12:17:42AM +0900, SpringFlowers AutumnMoon  
wrote:

> i am hoping ERb will become the scripting language of choice when it  
> comes to server-side scripting…

I think you mean Ruby would be the language of choice, using some eRuby  
implementation – possibly ERB. I’d like to see Ruby supplant PHP via  
some mechanism that supports markup-embedded templating the way eRuby  
does, too.

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**Author:** ![winterheat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7993a0/32.png) [@winterheat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/winterheat)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 5:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hoping-erb-will-become-the-server-scripting-language/115802/3 "2007-09-28T17:59:29Z")

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On Sep 28, 2007, at 10:29 AM, Chad P. wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 12:17:42AM +0900, SpringFlowers AutumnMoon  
> wrote:
> 
> > i am hoping ERb will become the scripting language of choice when it  
> > comes to server-side scripting…
> 
> I think you mean Ruby would be the language of choice, using some  
> eRuby  
> implementation – possibly ERB. I’d like to see Ruby supplant PHP via  
> some mechanism that supports markup-embedded templating the way eRuby  
> does, too.  
> Me too.  
> But I think eRuby implementations need to match the features of at  
> least PHP in terms of the ease of embedding.  
> Unfortunately for us, right now, just sprinkling little bits of Ruby  
> on a web page is not nearly as easy nor as reliable as doing so with  
> PHP. I hate to admit it, but it’s true.

Already there is lots of growth in Rails learning out there, which  
does use Ruby. But it is only one paradigm. It would be nice if a big  
company would implement Ruby-based stuff (other than MS with  
IronRuby). It could be very interesting to see another approach  
different from Rails.

I don’t dislike Rails, I just wish there were more options.