From: phalcos <phalcos@...>
Date: 2006-10-27T05:30:21+09:00
Subject: Beginning Ruby

Hello Rubygroup,

Im quite new to Ruby (unexpected heh?) but is currently planning on
building a website community with it just in order to see how powerful
it accually can be. I usually use PHP when building webapplications but
since ruby works great for that too, I was curious and thus I have some
(yes, newbie-) questions. I have already Installed Ruby as a module for
apache, so that part works perfect, I've also read some of the
documents on http://www.ruby-lang.org

1. How can I make sure the userinput only contains certain characters?
Like if I only want my users to be able to give me [A-Za-z0-9], is
regex the only alternative?

2. Is there any builtin method for converting html-characters into safe
input, like what htmlspecialchars in PHP does?

3. Methods for SQL database storage?

3. Anything else I should think about?


If not, wish me luck. =)

Thanks, 
-- phalcos