# Status of mod\_ruby **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [July 19, 2008, 10:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/status-of-mod-ruby/143494 "2008-07-19T10:55:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/dec6dc/32.png) [@quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quik77)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 10:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/status-of-mod-ruby/143494/1 "2008-07-19T10:55:27Z")
With ruby 1.8.7 (2008-06-20 patchlevel 22) I was unable to compile mod\_ruby Looking at the last release ~2 years ago of mod\_ruby I wonder if it was abandoned? ---
**Author:** ![quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/dec6dc/32.png) [@quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quik77)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 6:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/status-of-mod-ruby/143494/2 "2008-07-19T18:34:55Z")
Marc H. wrote: > With ruby 1.8.7 (2008-06-20 patchlevel 22) I was unable to compile > mod\_ruby > > Looking at the last release ~2 years ago of mod\_ruby I wonder if it was > abandoned? It’s in the Ubuntu repositories, so the package maintainers should at least keep it working with the verion of Ruby in Ubuntu. I also wish that mod\_ruby would see some development. Mod\_ruby + erubis is great for small little projects where a framework is way overkill (such as times I’ve wanted to add just a few lines of script inside a single page). For now, the only alternative is to use php in such a situation, which is probably a better choice right now if you care to learn another language. In my case though, my primary job function is a system administrator, and I just can’t seem to grasp php where-as ruby took practically no effort for me to learn. So I’m hoping either mod\_ruby gets some momentum or Passenger adds the ability to render standalone rhtml files via erubis.