From: Eric Schwartz <emschwar@...>
Date: 2006-12-22T14:20:07+09:00
Subject: Re: External Ruby Script in HTML

Naked Sushi <runfaster@runawaysquirrels.com> writes:
> This probably has a simple answer, but I don't know it.

The answer is "no". :)

> Let's say I have a ruby script called hello.rb
> 
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
> def greeting ()
>   return "Hello world!"
> end
> 
> I want to call that script from within an HTML document.  How would I do
> so?

You can't.

>  Within the HTML document, would I just treat it the same way I call
> external javascript:

It's not javascript, so no.

> How would I make the function call?

Use eruby as someone suggested, use server-parsed html (SHTML), use a
CGI instead of a plain HTMl file, probably something else I haven't
thought of.  But you can't do it with just plain HTML.

-=Eric