From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2006-10-27T09:36:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Beginning Ruby

phalcos wrote:
> 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?


You are encouraged to build your own Web tools; Ruby is quite good for 
that.  However, you may want to consider one of the existing Ruby Web 
frameworks, such as IOWA, Nitro, Rails, Merb, Camping, or Cerise.

Each has a different opinion on Web development; perhaps one will suit you.

> 
> 
> If not, wish me luck. =)

Good luck!


Be sure to ask lots of questions here.


-- 
James Britt

"A principle or axiom is of no value without the rules for applying it."
   - Len Bullard