From: "Bambang Purnomosidi D. P." <bpdp@3wsi.net>
Date: 2001-11-27T10:27:46+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26584] Re: CGI


Dear Clayton Wozney,

This question is raised by someone in India (Suresh or something I forgot), I 
answered it but your answer is far more details, so, if you do not mind, I 
forward this to the mailing list so that hopefully this will help him.

Thanks.

--
bpdp

On Tuesday 27 November 2001 3:44 am, Clayton Wozney wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just recently got this going and I am an ultra-newbie Ruby guy (as well
> as knowing virtually nothing about Apache).  Here is what I/you need to do:
>
> 1. I installed Apache on my machine (I have a Win2K box)
> 2. As a default, I put my .rb files into /cgi-bin/ under Apache
> 3. Here is the kicker... malke sure that you have a shebang line in your
> .rb file telling Apache were to find the Ruby interpeter.  This should be
> the first line of the file.  Here is what mine looks like for Win2k:
> #!/ruby/bin/ruby
>     Notice the use of forward-slashes in the path.
>     For *nix, your shebang line should look something like:
> #1/usr/local/bin/ruby (this is from page xxviii of the pick axe book)
> 4. You may have to fiddle around with the Apache httpd.conf file to enable
> the ScriptAlias directive.  I think mine was set up with the correct path
> but I think it was commented out.  If you change anything in a .conf file
> you will have to start and stop Apache for the change to take effect.
> 5. To access this from a browser, enter http://localost/cgi-in/test.rb for
> the URL where test.rb is replaced wth the actual name of your script file.
>
> This worked for me, but I would start with a simpler script because I found
> it easy to make a typo and then the page won't load.  Here is what I
> started with and got to work:
>
> #!/ruby/bin/ruby
> require "cgi"
> cgi = CGI.new("html3")
> cgi.out {
>  CGI.pretty (
>   cgi.html {
>    cgi.head { cgi.title{"TITLE"} } +
>    cgi.body {
>     cgi.h1 { "This is big!" }
>    }
>   }
>  )
> }
>
> Note that CGI.pretty is a function call (hencer the () rather than {}).  I
> hope this helps.
>
> Clayton.
>
> P.S. I'm emailing you directly because I can't seem to reply post to the
> newsgroup... hmmm.