From: Florian Gilcher <flo@...>
Date: 2008-04-04T05:41:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and URL Variables

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On Apr 3, 2008, at 10:29 PM, Devlin Zaussome wrote:
> I'm quite new to Ruby and am wondering if there is a way to access  
> what
> I called "URL variables" (not sure if that's the proper name.) They  
> were
> essentially GET variables, and PHP made it very easy to access with a
> global called $_GET.

Those are called GET-Parameters :).

>
>
> Is there an equivalent for Ruby?

As Ruby is not built with web development in mind, it does not have
such a thing.

But parameters are accessible through the CGI-Library. You can
find an introduction here: (it is a bit dated, but it mostly fits)

http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/web.html

> I'm trying to avoid using Rails, I don't like it much.

There are other nice web frameworks in Ruby - try one of those.
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