From: Phillip Neiswanger <sigsegv@...>
Date: 2006-12-06T16:36:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Apache and Ruby

On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 23:43:32 -0700, Justin Collins <collinsj@seattleu.edu>  
wrote:

> Phillip Neiswanger wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> New to ruby and apache.  Been trying to get a simple ruby script to run  
>> via apache.  The script is as follows:
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/env ruby
>> require "cgi"
>> cgi = CGI.new("html3")
>> cgi.out("text/plain"){
>>     "Hello World"
>> }
>>
>> I attempt to access it with my browser via an address like:   
>> http://127.0.0.1/script.rb.  Apache is clearly not running ruby since I  
>> get the script back verbatim to the browser.  Plain html, ie no ruby,  
>> is working.  So far, in my search for an answer I haven't found  
>> anything to alleviate my problems.  Interestingly, I have eRuby  
>> working, ie I can embed ruby code in my html, but not ruby.  What  
>> special Apache incantation do I need to get it working?  I'm running  
>> Opera/FireFox, Apache 2.2.3 and Ruby 1.8.5 on FreeBSD 6.1 system.  I am  
>> not interested in getting rails working right now, just ruby.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>> -- phil
>
> Do you have mod_ruby installed?
>
> -Justin

Thanks for the reply Justin.  I fixed my problems with the following lines  
in httpd.conf

Options ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script .rb

I also had to make sure the .rb files had the appropriate group ownership.
--
phil