# Replacing Server ASP with Ruby (was Re: autogenerated ebuild

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/replacing-server-asp-with-ruby-was-re-autogenerated-ebuild/81688>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 11, 2007, 11:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/replacing-server-asp-with-ruby-was-re-autogenerated-ebuild/81688 "2007-01-11T11:29:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![breko](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@breko](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/breko)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 11:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/replacing-server-asp-with-ruby-was-re-autogenerated-ebuild/81688/1 "2007-01-11T11:29:44Z")

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On 1/11/07, Anjum P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> hello guys…
> 
> i want to use ASP for my project for its user interface.for that i need some  
> ASP engines on linux.  
> But these engines are not free of cost.  
> CAn we use Ruby for hosting my server pages just like ASP?  
> if not,can anybody suggest me how to run ASP pages on linux and wht ASP  
> engines  
> it would require??  
> reply soon.

Hi,

I guess it’s perfectly possible, either if you want to make just  
webpages, or if you want to make webservices. See [rubyonrails.com](http://rubyonrails.com) for  
example, or [http://www.nitroproject.org/](http://www.nitroproject.org/) or  
[http://enigo.com/projects/iowa/index.html](http://enigo.com/projects/iowa/index.html)

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**Author:** ![breko](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@breko](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/breko)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 4:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/replacing-server-asp-with-ruby-was-re-autogenerated-ebuild/81688/2 "2007-01-11T16:26:41Z")

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On 1/11/07, Anjum P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> CAn we use Ruby for hosting my server pages just like ASP?

Absolutely. Although there are web frameworks (like rails) that give  
you more power and convenience than ASP alone, mod\_ruby + eRuby (or  
ERB) is a simple, direct correlation to the templating power of ASP.  
They allow the simple HTML and (ruby) code.

You can add a simple foundation like “ruby-web” to add additional  
session, post, and other convenience methods:  
[http://www.narf-lib.org/ruby-web/](http://www.narf-lib.org/ruby-web/)