From: "J. D." <jd@...>
Date: 2004-11-02T00:23:57+09:00
Subject: Re: fastcgi + eruby

Patrick May wrote:
> 
> On Monday, November 1, 2004, at 09:33  AM, J. D. wrote:
> 
>> What is the best way to handle .rhtml (eruby) documents using fastcgi?
>>
>> I'm using Linux, Apache2 and fcgi 0.8.4.
>>
>> I'm trying to convert a site from mod_ruby to fastcgi so I can run 
>> some comparison tests.
>>
>> Converting .rbx was easy but I'm not sure how to best handle .rhtml.
> 
> 
> Maybe use the erb interpreter, and use fcgi instead of cgi?  I think 
> that might work, but at the expense of having to insert a big loop into 
> all your rhtml templates.  There's a cool continuation hack that matz 
> wrote to make cgi work with fcgi, without any code changes.  But there 
> are some ruby bugs that affect continuations.
> 
> ~ patrick
> 
> 
> 

Thanks, you're right about erb!

Googling 'erb' instead of 'eruby' resulted in finding this:

http://pub.cozmixng.org/~the-rwiki/rw-cgi.rb?cmd=view;name=ERbMemo.en

The part about 'using as a library' on the page was particularly 
helpful.  I guess I can just include it inside the fcgi loop.