From: Grant Hollingworth <grant@...>
Date: 2006-12-09T06:44:27+09:00
Subject: Re: apache2 + ubuntu edgy + ruby

* Sam Waller <sam.waller@avmet.com> [2006-12-08 12:00]:
>When I try to run a test.rb file I'm getting this in the error.log file:
>
>[Fri Dec 08 13:52:30 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (2)\xd9\x05i\xb7: exec of
>'/var/www/site/test.rb' failed
>[Fri Dec 08 13:52:30 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of script headers: test.rb

It might be a problem with suexec.  Check suexec.log.  You probably have to change the permissions on the script -- suexec doesn't like scripts (or the directories they're in) to be group-writable.