From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-06-14T22:55:34+09:00
Subject: Re: form handling using ruby


On Jun 13, 2007, at 10:12 PM, Mark wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm a newbie to ruby and web programming. I created a very simple html
> form and set the action to "action=actionhandler.rb", after  
> following an
> example from a book. But when I click submit, instead of running
> actionhandler.rb, my browser shows the source code of  
> actionhandler.rb.
> I'm running these things on Apache webserver. So where am I going  
> wrong
> ? Do I need any additional plugins ? Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> My actionhandler.rb file looks as follows:
>
> #!/usr/local/ruby/bin/ruby
>
> require 'cgi'
> cgi = CGI.new
>
> puts cgi['name']
> puts cgi['reason']
>
> f= File.new("output","w")
>
> f.puts cgi['name']
> f.puts cgi['reason']
>
> f.close
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
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>
Hey Mark,
Any time you do this, you need to set the permissions on the file, so  
that it is executable.
But the symptom you are having is more often caused by the fact that  
Apache doesn't know what to do with a file of the extension .rb  now.
You need to make sure it has mod_ruby or something.
In your web directory you should have a .htaccess file in which you  
can write some Apache directives.
Google some of these and check the FAQ/support on your web server.