Javascript, CSS, Ruby/rails supported on "basic" html server?

[ColKurtz]

I have discovered some internal corporate hosting space which allows for HTML pages. I used templates to learn some basic HTML and built a web "teamroom"for our dept. I'm not looking to change careers or create a professional page, but I'd like to experiment with some other aspects of web design (CSS, Javascrip, Ruby/rails, etc) on the teamroom.... but I'm not sure which of these items a "basic" HTML server would support. Documentation on the hosting space is rather sparse. I could ask questions, but I'm too ignorant of the fundamentals of web programming to even know what to ask.

I guess the question would be... of CSS, Javascript, and Ruby on Rails, would a basic HTML server be expected to support any of those, or do I need to ask whether our HTML server supports those "frameworks".

Thanks in advance.

 

[dighn]

JavaScript and CSS are client-side, which means they run on the browser so that's completely independent of the server's scripting capabilities
Ruby on Rails requires server support so you should ask. You can always run a server on your own machine if all you want to do for now is learning.

 

[ColKurtz]

Thanks for the reply. Yes... I've tried running my own server before, but for me it eventually comes down to the issue motivation. My world is littered with half-finished side projects -- there's only so much time to play (2 kids in diapers 🙂. If I know my professional colleagues are using something, I'm going to be more motivated to actually learn it and improve it. Thanks again.

 

[NiKeFiDO]

ROR isn't totally main stream for web hosting solutions just yet.

Almost all non-windows based hosting (which is the majority of them AFAIK) will use PHP

However, this doesn't necessarily mean that you can't find ROR.

for instance, we use this web hosting and they offer ROR:

www.eleven2.com