I knew I was going to get some code golf responses. Simple and short are two different things. I value PHP over Ruby here because it's much clearer to the laym

I knew I was going to get some code golf responses. Simple and short are two different things. I value PHP over Ruby here because it's much clearer to the layman what's going on. To explain the PHP, all I have to explain is functions, variables, and the echo statement. To explain the Ruby, I have to explain functions, variables, Objects (everything is an object), Libraries, I/O, and method invocations. Also, in classic code golf form, your code eliminates a couple things that will make it do exactly the same thing as the PHP - you're missing your #! line, and you're not actually writing a CGI script, which is a second library you need to include and explain to your hapless newbie. And honestly, it's not just a newbie thing. I've written Ruby similar to that (with good error handling, etc.) Ruby only makes sense if you're going to do the job properly and put in error handling, etc.