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Why not do "Ruby sans Rails" instead? You can keep the Ruby experience, but get all of the lower-level request/response experience you like.

Ruby is a good language for CGI programming.

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That's a really good question and one that I had as well. The main problem for me up until now is finding info on web programming that does not mention Rails.

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