I am interested in learning Ruby.

What are your thoughts, ie. Which would be better for a new site I want to make - Python or Ruby? Is there a steep learning curve? Anything else?
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Lazurane

They are almost same. Without Python's indentation blocks, Python will only be a generic programming language.

Ruby server module seems to be less-supported than Python, I downloaded Ruby and installed mod_ruby to my server by myself.

I'm afraid Ruby on Rails is too hard to learn, or the framework is too big, or you must pay for hosts, so stick with Ruby CGI.

Ruby seems to have same amount of learning like Python, so it's OK to learn it

Making a site in Ruby will really help you learn it.

I dunno about everyone else, but I think Rails is my only real motivation for learning Ruby. You definitely want to learn how to use it.

Ruby is almost the same thing as Python, although the syntax can get wild when doing more complicated tasks. Rails is pretty much the only reason why I learned Ruby, and it was an excellent framework.

If your host has FastCGI/mongrel/mod_ruby/Phusion Passenger, then use those instead of regular CGI. Rails does not cope well with CGI, especially when trying to revert to a production environment.
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FHQ

I'm trying Ruby on Rails right now, it's hard, but it lets you to make hard things easier.
I followed a weblog tutorial and I wrote the posts and RSS functionality.

Is it hard to set up Ruby use for the web, or should I not bother?
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Lazurane

If you decide to go all "I'm a man, I'll do everything myself without knowing how this works", then yes, it can be. If you're going to deploy on the web, you should use a framework and run it using Phusion Passenger or FastCGI (I notice that you use Dreamhost, hence why I place emphasis on these two.) Unless you're interested in RoR, use a lightweight framework like Sinatra.
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FHQ

Eurgh. I don't know how it works, I'll leave it for now.
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Lazurane

I was referring to the non-framework approach.
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FHQ

As in, with Dreamhost, does Ruby come preinstalled, or do I need to do some tinkering?
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Lazurane