From: Yuri Leikind <YuriLeikind@...>
Date: 2001-06-26T23:21:54+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16896] style in ruby cgi scripts

Hi all,

Today I played with Ruby cgi library
for the first time, and after lots of
Perl cgi coding this seems a bit weird
to me - the fact that the whole html page 
must be generated by a sequence of Ruby
expressions concatenated with "+" :

cgi.body{
   cgi.p{
      ......
   }+
   cgi.pre{
      ......
   }+
      ....and so on
}

In general Ruby is like fresh air to me,
it is very clean and nice, but here I have 
to do tricks like

obj.collect { |x|
   .......
}.join('<br>') + 
..........

or 

cgi.p{
   ..........
}if (..) 
+

which I personally don't find good style,
and unmaintanable for big and complex 
cgi scripts.

Could you please show me another way, or,
if you think this way is ok, show/send me an example 
of a complex cgi script?

-- 
Best regards,
Yuri Leikind

Random signature:
Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly...
             -- Larry Wall in <2969@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>