From: Osuka Adartse <rocioestradacastaneda@...>
Date: 2004-07-15T05:51:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing erb under W2K

barry wrote:
> Hello,
>     I am an absolute nuby at Ruby   ( starting it a little over a week
> ago ) and got the dbi.  I was able to make GUIs and connect to an
> Oracle database, making standard calls to create, drop, select and
> insert.
>     How do I insert Ruby into a webpage so that web access would allow
> showing and changing database data through the normal HTML forms?  The
> manual "Pragmatic Programmer" discusses only eRuby.  I am using W2K
> and Oracle 8i.  From my reading it seems that mod_ruby would do what I
> want, but it doesn't exist for Windows.  Erb seems like a candidate,
> and I've found "erb" and "erb.bat" on my system, but I need a tutorial
> on setting it up and using it.  I also went to
> http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/erb and tried an install, but the
> samples don't work.  Can anybody step me through the install, proper
> directories for library and rhtml, etc.?
>  
>     Thanks,
>         Barry
> 
> 
maybe eruby? check
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/92598

AFAIK mod_ruby can be run on windows...look in the ML archives, I don't 
really remember why, but I stuck with eruby instead of mod_ruby.