From: itsme213 <itsme213@...>
Date: 2005-01-21T12:20:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Add comments to static web pages ?


"Nicholas Van Weerdenburg" <vanweerd@gmail.com> wrote in message

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

I can add to the static pages, as I generate them statically from Ruby.

From the suggestions so far, one lightweight approach seems to be to have a
comments file per static html file. At the bottom of each static html file I
could include an <iframe> or <object> to show current comments via some
comments_for(x) script, and a form that submits to some add_comment_for(x)
script.

Thoughts?

This will be my very first venture into the web with Ruby so please excuse
my naivete. If I do this on a LAMP web host with Ruby and cgi (not too
worried about performance of the comments right now), would it be anything
like this:

#comments_for.rb
#!/bin/ruby
require 'cgi'
cgi = CGI.new
file = cgi['file_name']
comments = IO.read "#{file_name}.comments"
cgi.out{
  cgi.html{
    cgi.head {}
    cgi.body {
      cgi.div { comments }
    }
  }
}

#add_comment_for.rb
#!/bin/ruby
require 'cgi'
cgi = CGI.new
file = cgi['file_name']
comment = cgi['comment']
File.open(file, "a") {|f| f << commoent }

Thanks!