From: Tim Becker <a2800276@...>
Date: 2007-03-01T16:33:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Runy newbie question

The problem is that your ruby script is also a text file and apache
doesn't know if you'd just like to give back a text file or execute
the script. Per default, it does the safer option, which is just
return the text.
> This script works nicely when run from the windows
> command line.
>
> However, ...  on my website, ... IE or FF
> wants to download the .rb file.

You need to configure the server to  handle cgis. You can either do
this in the global Apache configuration or in a file called
`.htaccess` which alters the configuration for the directory you're
located in. You'll need to require something along the lines of:

  Options +ExecCGI

to instruct the server that execution of cgi's is generally allowed, and:

   AddHandler cgi-script rb

for Apache to treat .rb files as cgi's. Not sure how this is handled
on Windows, but the script also needs to be executable (chmod +x on
unix).

Sort through the Apache manual, start here:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/htaccess.html#cgi

Cheers,
   -tim