From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-07-06T10:40:02+09:00
Subject: Re: CGI with DBI error - cant use both at the same time


On Jul 4, 2007, at 5:55 AM, Gale CC wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using Ruby's CGI to handle some forms, and the form input is to be
> further used to query a database. But I'm getting errors when I try to
> use the DBI module to connect to the database. Even just typing
> "require 'dbi'" is screwing up things. For instance in the following
> code, nothing would show up unless I remove "require  'dbi'".
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/ruby -w
> print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n"
> require "cgi"
> require "dbi"
>
> puts "Thanks- form submitted"
>
> If instead of using the print command, I try to use cgi.out then I get
> "500 Internal Server Error". Does anyone know a fix to this problem ?
>
> Thanks,
> Gale
>
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>
move the cgi out statement below the require cgi statement