From: Jan Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2006-09-21T02:59:19+09:00
Subject: Re: super simple serving of ruby pages

On 9/20/06, zerohalo <zerohalo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Jan. That was easy. Now .rhtml files render correctly.
>
> Is there a way to tell it to execute .rb files rather than treat them
> as simple text files?
>
> Jan Svitok wrote:
> > On 9/20/06, zerohalo <zerohalo@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Yes, I tried that. Unfortunately there is no documentation on the
> > > webrick site on how to use ERBHandler. I have this in a ruby script
> > > which does start up the Webrick server. However, while it serves HTML
> > > files fine, it treats RHTML files as binaries and RB files as just
> > > plain text. Here's my code:
> >
> > require 'webrick'
> > include WEBrick
+ module WEBrick
+   module HTTPServlet
+     FileHandler.add_handler("rb", CGIHandler)
+   end
+ end
> >
> > def start_webrick(config = {})
> >   config.update(:Port => 8080)
> > +  config.update(:MimeTypes => {'rhtml' => 'text/html'})
> >   server = HTTPServer.new(config)
> >   yield server if block_given?
> >   ['INT', 'TERM'].each {|signal|
> >     trap(signal) {server.shutdown}
> >   }
> > -  ruby_dir = File.expand_path('/data/sandbox/ruby')
> > -  server.mount("/data/sandbox/ruby", HTTPServlet::ERBHandler, ruby_dir)
> >   server.start
> > end
> >
> > start_webrick(:DocumentRoot => '/data/sandbox/ruby')

Now it starts .rb for me, although I'm not able to write any good cgi
right now ;-) maybe it's because I'm on windows...