From: Phlip <phlipcpp@...>
Date: 2007-07-15T13:11:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Passing arguments to ruby script

Gale CC wrote:

> If I do something like:
> xmlHttp.open("GET","ajaxhandler.rb" + myargument,true)
> then the script fails.
>
> The PHP way to handle such cases is to add "?argument=argumentvalue"
> after the file name. And then within the PHP script you can further
> parse the values.
>
> Is there anything similar in Ruby ? Or is there any other fix to this
> problem ?

Briefly: Use Ruby on Rails. It hides all this wiring and patching behind a 
slick interface, so you can spend time on your actual features.

Without RoR, your question here is the moral equivalent of an Assembler 
question on a C newsgroup. Don't re-invent the wheel.

If you simply cannot, then raid its JS library, prototype.js, for high-level 
wrappers. There's simply no reason to call xmlHttp yourself, when libraries 
like prototype.js have taken care of all the hairy asynchronicity and 
networking issues for you.

-- 
  Phlip
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  "Test Driven Ajax (on Rails)"
  assert_xpath, assert_javascript, & assert_ajax