From: Phrogz <gavin@...>
Date: 2006-12-22T15:00:05+09:00
Subject: Re: External Ruby Script in HTML

Naked Sushi wrote:
> #!/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?

Read this (it's very short):
http://xkr.us/js/clientserver
When you see "PHP" in there, think "My Ruby Script". For your question,
when you see "JS", you can think "HTML".

Hopefully that very brief story will help you understand how the
'magic' of the WWW works; where your Ruby code can run on the server,
and why you can't run server code from a user's web browser. The only
thing you can do is use HTML and/or JavaScript to make a new request
back to the web server, and get the results from it.