From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2004-05-24T13:34:01-07:00
Subject: Re: Webrick & HOWTO type docs?

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Kirk Haines (khaines@enigo.com) wrote:

> I think I know the answer to this already, but....
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> Are there any not-so-easy-to-find documents anywhere on using Webrick?  A=
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> docs or howto docs or anything like that?
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> I'm going to make Iowa capable of using webrick so that an Iowa applicati=
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> can be a completely standalone application server.  From what I can tell,=
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> this graft looks like it should be an extremely simple one, but I haven't=
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> been able to find a lot of documentation so I'm mostly going to be workin=
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> from looking at the webrick code and at other pieces of software that use=
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> it, unless someone can point me to something that I have missed.
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> If there is nothing, then I will try to document what I learn while I go=
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> about this project as a way to start making some practical HOWTO type=20
> documentation available for webrick.

I haven't found any, but the Servlets provided with WEBrick are a good
start.  Here's a template:

class MyServlet < WEBrick::HTTPServlet::AbstractServlet

  ##
  # your_arguments stands in for any extra arguments
  #
  # Of course, you may omit #initialize if you don't use extra args

  def initialize(server, your_arguments)
    super

    # setup from your_arguments
  end

  ##
  # HTTP method handlers are prefixed with do_

  def do_GET(request, response)
    status, headers, body =3D do_stuff_with(request)
    response.status =3D status
    response.headers =3D headers
    response.body =3D body
  end

  alias do_POST do_GET

end

To mount the servlet:

server =3D WEBrick::HTTPServer.new
server.mount "/some/path", MyServlet, any_extra_args

Any arguments after the servlet class get passed to the servlet's #new
method.

Here's the one I use for Borges:

http://rubyforge.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/borges/lib/Borges/WEBr=
ick.rb?rev=3D1.13&cvsroot=3Dborges&content-type=3Dtext/vnd.viewcvs-markup

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> Thanks,
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> Kirk Haines
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