# Is there anything else I can use besides rails? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [August 7, 2010, 10:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-anything-else-i-can-use-besides-rails/192897 "2010-08-07T22:33:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![merc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@merc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/merc)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 10:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-anything-else-i-can-use-besides-rails/192897/1 "2010-08-07T22:33:25Z")
Can ruby be on anything else besides rails? ---
**Author:** ![merc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@merc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/merc)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 10:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-anything-else-i-can-use-besides-rails/192897/2 "2010-08-07T22:57:35Z")
On 10-08-07 04:33 PM, Tony Mr wrote: > Can ruby be on anything else besides rails? i’ve tired is on sliced-bread but it got stuck with my peanut butter! are you trolling on the rails thread =P …there is a ruby thread you know 😉 [http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/community/mailing-lists/](http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/community/mailing-lists/) i’ve heard of [http://www.sinatrarb.com/](http://www.sinatrarb.com/) which i don’t use so can’t comment on that ---
**Author:** ![merc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@merc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/merc)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 11:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-anything-else-i-can-use-besides-rails/192897/3 "2010-08-07T23:23:20Z")
On 7 August 2010 21:33, Tony Mr [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Can ruby be on anything else besides rails? Strictly I think it should really be Rails that is on Ruby rather than the other way round. It does not sound as good however. Ruby is then on Ubuntu or, heaven forbid, Windows. So what exactly do you mean by the question? Colin ---
**Author:** ![merc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@merc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/merc)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 11:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-anything-else-i-can-use-besides-rails/192897/4 "2010-08-07T23:51:26Z")
On 10-08-07 04:33 PM, Tony Mr wrote: > Can ruby be on anything else besides rails? There are other web frameworks for it, if that’s what you mean. Someone already mentioned Sinatra. Then there’s the whole Rack interface. Ruby is also quite useful on its own for general scripting purposes. (I’ll leave it to the zealots to compare it to Perl, Python, etc.) Right now I have a project at work to use it to read in some XML files and spit the info back out in CSV format. (Yeah, that’s trivial, but you can do a lot more with it.) -Dave – Specialization is for insects. -RAH | Have Pun, Will Babble! -me Programming Blog: [http://codosaur.us](http://codosaur.us) | Work: [http://davearonson.com](http://davearonson.com) Leadership Blog: [http://dare2xl.com](http://dare2xl.com) | Play: [http://davearonson.net](http://davearonson.net) - - - - - WATCH THIS SPACE \* \* \* \* \* | Ruby: [http://mars.groupsite.com](http://mars.groupsite.com) ---
**Author:** ![merc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@merc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/merc)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-anything-else-i-can-use-besides-rails/192897/5 "2010-08-07T23:56:07Z")
[http://www.merbivore.com/](http://www.merbivore.com/) [http://www.merbivore.com/](http://www.merbivore.com/)[http://camping.rubyforge.org/](http://camping.rubyforge.org/) On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Dave A. \< ---
**Author:** ![merc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@merc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/merc)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2010, 12:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-anything-else-i-can-use-besides-rails/192897/6 "2010-08-08T00:35:20Z")
eventmachine, mongrel2 hell, you can do http server as a oneliner so… 😉 Yeah, there are lots of sexy ways you can apply ruby outside the rails, which, to be honest, is mostly sought after by those who don’t know and milked by those who don’t care. On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Angel Robert M. \< ---
**Author:** ![merc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@merc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/merc)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-anything-else-i-can-use-besides-rails/192897/7 "2010-08-08T16:26:26Z")
On the off chance you meant using Rails elsewhere - I have used ActiveRecord outside Rails for some database programming.