From: Patrick May <patrick@...>
Date: 2004-09-29T11:05:39+09:00
Subject: Re: fastcgi & continuations (Re: Idea: Webshare)


On Friday, September 10, 2004, at 04:58  AM, Brian Candler wrote:

> That code is a nasty frig though, when you could just replace
>
>   cgi = CGI::Fast.new
>
> with
>
>   FCGI.each_cgi do |cgi|
>     ...
>   end
>
> Furthermore, the code then runs transparently in three different ways: 
> as a
> regular CGI, as a FastCGI, or from the command-line (enter name=value 
> pairs)

i want to replace:

   #!/usr/bin/ruby
   require 'fcgi'
   FCGI.each_cgi do |cgi|
     cgi.out do
       "Hello, World"
     end
   end

with:

   #!/usr/bin/ruby
   require 'web'
   puts "Hello, World"

The continuation trick makes this possible.

Cheers,

Patrick