From: Justin Collins <collinsj@...>
Date: 2005-11-19T07:47:07+09:00
Subject: Re: web development w/ ruby

Cam wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I need to make some simple web-pages at work for internal use
> (changing svn password, modifying postfix email-aliases, etc).  I'd
> like to use ruby for this.  I haven't really done anything w/
> web-development in many years, and back then i was using php.  I know
> that ruby on rails is the hottest thing ever right now, but it doesn't
> seem like i should need database-centric stuff like that for the
> simple web-apps i need to develop.  I found mod-ruby and have set it
> up, but i'm not sure how to best use it now.    Is there any
> documentation avaliable?  do i just use puts to output html streams,
> or is that streamlined for me somehow?  How do i ask for input, etc.?
>
> Thanks,
> Cameron Matheson
>   
http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/CGI.html

The CGI class with the HTML extensions will take care of all the HTML 
output. For example:

require 'cgi'

cgi = Cgi.new('html4')

cgi.out {

    cgi.html {
         
             cgi.body {
         
                            "Hello!"
             }
    }
}


It has functions for nearly all HTML tags/forms/session/cookie stuff.

-Justin