From: mark <maggelet@...>
Date: 2005-11-24T05:03:09+09:00
Subject: Re: debugging a cgi

Hi Bob,
The idea is to make debugging cgi's easier. Yes I can check it on
another system, but it's a hassle.

In addition to your suggestion here's what I came up with so far:
I made a custom 500 error document called /500.rb and put:
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#!/usr/local/bin/ruby
print "Content-Type: text/plain\n\n"
unless ENV["REQUEST_URI"] == "/500.rb" # to avoid recursion
	script = ENV["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] + ENV["REQUEST_URI"]
	puts `/usr/local/bin/ruby #{script} 2>&1`
end
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this doesn't deal with the get and post vars but I'll fix that later.
It would be nice if there is a way to get ruby to bomb to the 500 page
on exceptions so that I don't need the 'rescue' on every page. right
now the exception just causes ruby to quit without going to the 500
page

Thanks for the input,
- Mark