From: Randy Lawrence <jm@...>
Date: 2004-07-15T07:38:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing erb under W2K

Osuka Adartse wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 

For info about mod_ruby and eruby/erb, visit:

http://www.modruby.net

I think mod_ruby and eruby serve different purposes.

mod_ruby embeds a ruby interpreter into Apache so you gain performance 
(over plain cgi) and ability to access some of apache internals and 
ability to provide handlers.

eruby is used to translate ruby code embedded inside html tags (like 
..asp or .jsp).  eruby can even be run from the command prompt or shell 
if desired.

Also check out these apache/ruby frameworks (there are others too):

cgikit - http://www.spice-of-life.net/cgikit/index_en.html
arrow - http://dev.rubycrafters.com/arrow-manual/whatis.html

And last but not least (www/http dynamic content projects):

http://rubyforge.org/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=92