From: Sam <ruby@...153.net>
Date: 2009-03-07T13:50:06+09:00
Subject: Re: CGI newbie

Brian Candler wrote:
> David Masover wrote:
>>> So pretty simple stuff like writing to text files and restarting 
>>> services.  I only have 300mhz and 128mb of ram to work with so I don't 
>>> know if RoR would be the best idea?
>> I would guess Rails would still work, but a better choice might be
>> Sinatra, or even Merb if you want a full stack. I am also guessing that
>> traditional CGI is still not the best choice.
>>
>> I'm going to say Sinatra and Ruby 1.9.1 are probably what you want.
> 
> I second that. The HTML form processing is already included. Try this 
> for starters:
> 
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'sinatra'
> 
> get '/' do
>   haml :index
> end
> 
> post '/update' do
>   STDERR.puts params.inspect   #   <= it's all in the params hash
>   # do some work
>   redirect '/'
> end
> 
> __END__
> @@ index
> %h1 Hello
> %p
>   OK, so it's a bit unfair of me to tell
>   a newbie to dive straight in with HAML.
>   But now I find this easier than form helpers.
> %form{:action=>"/update",:method=>"post"}
>   %label
>     Type something here:
>     %input{:type=>"text",:name=>"foo"}
>   %label
>     Select one of these:
>     %select{:name=>"bar"}
>       %option One
>       %option Two
>       %option Three
>   %input{:type=>"submit",:value=>"go"}


Interesting... Thanks!

Sam