From: Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <vanweerd@...>
Date: 2005-01-21T04:33:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Add comments to static web pages ?

Do you want to add anything to the static pages, or do it all
magically without touching them?

With ruby cgi you could so something like:

Replace links like this:
http://mysite/page1.html

with:
http://mysite/cgi-bin/enhancepage.rb?page=page1.html&action="comments"

And not have to change the static pages, keeping comments in a file or
database keyed on the page name. You could even use mod_rewrite to do
this automatically, changing no links on the site.

A simple eruby solution would involve changing all the pages from
.html to rhtml and use eruby and embedding ruby in the pages. That
could be automated with a script to add some ruby code to the bottom
of each page to include the comment logic.

Nick
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Nicholas Van Weerdenburg

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 03:35:59 +0900, itsme213 <itsme213@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I have a web of static pages, and would like to allow adding comments at the
> ends of any of those pages (and display with those comments). Not
> (currently) on Rails or any such framework.
> 
> Any suggestions on simple ways (preferably Ruby-based) to do this? Or where
> would be a good place to start looking?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>