From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@...>
Date: 2006-09-21T12:37:59+09:00
Subject: Re: super simple serving of ruby pages


On Sep 20, 2006, at 8:05 PM, James Britt wrote:

> zerohalo wrote:
>> Hi. I apologize in advance if this is a dumb question, but though  
>> I've
>> searched online I haven't found an answer.
>> I'm starting to teach my 8yr daughter Ruby. We've covered HTML and  
>> CSS
>> already and she handcoded her own static website. I'd like to
>> incorporate her Ruby learning experience into her website, which is
>> much more interesting for her than using Ruby to write scripts or
>> desktop apps. She's just starting out, so Rails is much too  
>> complicated
>> for her. She's not ready for the whole MVC concept yet. What I'd like
>> to do is to run very simple Ruby scripts from the site and  
>> incorporate
>> Ruby code into rhtml files, but without Rails. I don't really want a
>> "framework", just the ability to run a ruby file that will serve  
>> up an
>> rhtml file. In other words, something very simple like PHP (I don't
>> want to teach her PHP). [I'll get into Rails later once she's more
>> advanced.]
>> ERb looks like the ticket, but there's a missing link (for me). I can
>> write a ruby script that generates an rhtml file, but then how do I
>> serve that rhtml file without a framework like
>> Rails/Nitro/Camping/etc.? Probably the answer is with Webrick  
>> somehow,
>> but I'm missing the connection. I can't find a simple tutorial  
>> anywhere
>> online, and I'm no expert on web applications.
>
> I've an example of this that's ~100 lines of code, if you're  
> interested.
>
> Maps URLs to classes and templates and renders them, using erb and  
> Webrick.
>
>
>
> -- 
> James Britt

I'd be interested in seeing that James.

Thanks
-Ezra