# Re: New guy question

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-new-guy-question/80018>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 20, 2006, 9:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-new-guy-question/80018 "2006-12-20T21:50:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/phrogz)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 9:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-new-guy-question/80018/1 "2006-12-20T21:50:04Z")

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From: JoeyP [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)]

> I am going to use Ruby.
> 
> Does anyone have any starter code out there for the CGI?  
> What framework or library are you going to use? Ruby on Rails?  
> ruby-web? Iowa? Just eRuby and CGI? etc.

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**Author:** ![phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/phrogz)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 10:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-new-guy-question/80018/2 "2006-12-20T22:02:10Z")

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Gavin K. wrote:

> From: JoeyP [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)]
> 
> > I am going to use Ruby.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any starter code out there for the CGI?  
> > What framework or library are you going to use? Ruby on Rails?  
> > ruby-web? Iowa? Just eRuby and CGI? etc.

Thanks for your reply. I was planning on Ruby on Rails.

I have the Dave T. “Programming Ruby” book. I am slowly going  
through it but it would be nice if I had some code to start off of.

Thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/phrogz)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 10:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-new-guy-question/80018/3 "2006-12-20T22:40:23Z")

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JoeyP wrote:

> >

Dave also has a book about Rails called  
_Agile\_Web\_Development\_with\_Rails_:  
[http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/rails/index.html](http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/rails/index.html). Also there  
are a number of other good books about Ruby and Rails. You might want to  
check out _Ruby\_for\_Rails_ by David Black. There’s also a mailing list  
entirely dedicated to Rails. Here’s more information:  
[Ruby on Rails — A web-app framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.](http://www.rubyonrails.org/community).

Good luck!