From: Joao Pedrosa <joaopedrosa@...>
Date: 2005-03-07T11:56:26+09:00
Subject: Re: WEBrick for a local application?

Hi,

On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 23:47:49 -0300, Joao Pedrosa <joaopedrosa@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 11:41:05 +0900, Jeremy Bear <jeremy.bear@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I'm considering writing a dream journaling program for a small group
> > of friends, and we're on different platforms.  I'm on Linux, one is on
> > FreeBSD, and others are on WindowsXP.  Basically, I wanted to do
> > something that would yield a nice cross-platform GUI.  I've looked at
> > using Tk, but I know that on the Linux/BSD platforms, it's rather
> > ugly.  I thought about making a Web based gui for the program, since I
> > could use CSS and such to really make the interface look nice.
> >
> > I've looked at the WEBrick docs and samples, and, it looks like it
> > could yield a decent solution.  I've played around with it a little,
> > and I realized that starting it up at all makes an open port to the
> > outside world if you're online.  That isn't exactly what I wanted to
> > do.
> >
> > My main question, I guess, is this:  Is there any way that I can use
> > WEBrick in a local setting only that will not open up a persons
> > computer to the outside world?  I think that it could make a nice
> > application base, but I don't want to compromise one's security while
> > using it.
> >
> > I really wanted to keep downloads for these people to be kept to a
> > minimum, so I didn't really want to make them download a bunch of
> > extra GUI libraries.  I also wanted something that would run fairly
> > quick, and would be easy to use.  (for some reason I have had a hard
> > time grasping Fox, although Tk was easy enough)
> >
> > Am I barking up the wrong tree with this?
> 
> WEBrick rocks.
> 
> You can use :BindAddress => local_ip and it will be LAN accessible only. Like:
> 
> :BindAddress => 192.168.0.100, :Port => 2000
> 
> See its code, as I use Wee and its a bit different, like:
> Wee::WEBrickAdaptor.register('/app' => app).start(:BindAddress =>
> '192.168.0.100', :Port => 2000)

I could have asked, do you know Wee already? It's very capable in
delivering Web-Apps. After a day or so you will have your solution
partly done already.

See: http://rubyforge.org/projects/wee/

WEBrick is its main backend so far.

Cheers,
Joao