From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-06-28T23:02:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Ajax with Ruby problem


John Joyce


On Jun 28, 2007, at 2:51 AM, Gale CC wrote:

> Damn.. I really dont believe this!!
> I gave a half-hearted try to what you said and it worked!!
> I was previously working inside /cgi-bin/ajax-test directory and was
> thinking it should not make a difference. What you said made no  
> sense to
> me but I still gave it a try just to be sure.
> Anyways, thanks so much!!
>
> Gale
>
>
>
> J-H Johansen wrote:
>> On 6/28/07, Gale CC <galecho@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm pretty sure the shebang line is correct. I verified by doing  
>>> "which
>>> ruby" and also ran the file independently from the shell by typing
>>> "./test2.rb" and it works.
>>>
>>> Also the file runs fine when its set as an "action" to a form,  
>>> but not
>>> in this case when its run from inside a javascript script. Any idea
>>> what's wrong ?
>>
>> Download the "web developer" plug-in for Firefox and enable while
>> you're developing. It's a nice feature to see each and every call you
>> make and you can even inspect the output from the calls.
>>
>> The reference you're using here looks a bit weird though.
>>
>> xmlHttp.open("GET","test2.rb",true);
>>
>> Normally, I would have to reference the cgi-bin directory as well,  
>> and
>> this here appears to reference the Ruby script as though it was
>> located in the same directory as the HTML file that produces the  
>> page.
>> Try something like this:
>>
>> xmlHttp.open("GET","/cgi-bin/test2.rb",true);
>>
>> if the script is located at the root of the cgi-bin directory.
>
>
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>

So the problem was not calling the script with the /cgi-bin   
directory in the path ?
And the solution was pre-pending that to the path_to_script?

Please post a clear solution, even if it is a link to a blog. this is  
a most interesting problem and solution that should probably be on  
the troubleshooting checklist for lots of people!
thx