From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2007-02-19T20:11:35+09:00
Subject: Re: cgi / fcgi?

On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 07:18:16 +0100, Aaron Smith  
<beingthexemplary@gmail.com> wrote:

> Forgive me for my newbiness. I've never had to deal with cgi's before. I
> understand that fcgi is supposed to make cgi faster. But in the case of
> ruby, when i'm handling a request that was made to an fcgi. Do I handle
> it through the CGI apis? I don't quite see how to handle one through
> fcgi? To me FCGI seems to be  just the fcgi server?
>
> For example, in my fcgi script. I've only been able to figure out how to
> grab request data through cgi = CGI.new. then accessing params and what
> not through that. Is that correct?
>
> -thanks.
>


Your Ruby script needs to run a FCGI binding / listener / dispatcher /  
whatevertheheck too, which I think [1] provides its own mechanism for  
doing this, hopefully reasonably compatible with the standard CGI library.  
Considering you don't mention doing that, I'm going out on a limb here and  
suspect the superior FCGI process degrades gracefully to regular CGI in  
your case.

David Vallner

[1] Can't for the heck of it google up any documentation myself, and don't  
quite feel like wading through the source in hopes there's rdoc around.