From: khaines@...
Date: 2006-07-07T00:26:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Using HTML FORMS on a client machine only from Ruby

> I want to be able to write a Ruby script that (possibly creates, but
> ultimately) displays (synchronously) an HTML page with FORM widgets in it.
> I want to fill in the form data manually, press SUBMIT, and have the form
> information passed back, or available to, my Ruby script.     I want this
> script work on a Mac and PC with little or no platform dependant coding.
>
> Is this an out of the ordinary objective?  Am I too naive and this simple of
> a scenario was never considered?   It's seems to me to be easier to converse
> with a web page 1/2 way around the planet than on my own PC with IE or
> Navigator.

There's nothing esoteric about that.  Use Webrick or Mongrel.  Use CGI, 
with or without a templating library, or use one of the Ruby web devel 
frameworks (Camping, Wee, Nitro, Rails, IOWA).  I sometimes package entire 
websites, with all the dynamic bits or applications, onto a CD or DVD or 
in an archive file that clients can just pop into their computers, run a 
startup script on, and then use.


Kirk Haines