From: Gale CC <galecho@...>
Date: 2007-07-15T14:43:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Passing arguments to ruby script

Gale CC wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Firstly, I dont want to use Rails because I'm not writing a full fledged 
> web app, but rather something with a web interface and Ruby just happens 
> to be the scripting language.
> Secondly, I guess I didnt phrase my question properly. I just want to 
> know a way to figure out how to "parse" and not "pass" arguments sent to 
> a script. I know I can send arguments using 
> "scriptname.rb?argument1=value1&argument2=value2", I just want to know a 
> way to parse those two values - argument1 and argument2 inside the 
> script scriptname.rb. Is there a way around ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Gale

Nevermind I figured it out.
I just need to access it using a cgi object- cgi.params['argument1']

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