From: Pat Eyler <pate@...>
Date: 2002-02-05T09:11:55+09:00
Subject: Re: silly eruby question

On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Sean Chittenden wrote:

> You need to declare cgi in your included file... that or you need to
> include your file, then pass cgi as an argument.

hmm, it's not actually a seperate function or object.   I made the
#include-like assumption that if I were writing something procedural (I
know, I'm a heretic) that the code from the 'require'd file would just be
set in place and executed in the normal flow of traffic.

> Something tells me your background is in PHP, yes?  ;~)

not really, I've done a bit of perl, a bit of php, and a (tiny) little
bit of C, but mostly shell stuff.

> Ruby/eRuby is much more like a
> normal programming language in that its got sane scopping and
> namespace pragma.  -sc

I don't understand how scoping would affect this.  If I just add the code
into the eruby file it would look like (by the way this doesn't work on
the production machine either):
============
require 'cgi'

cgi = CGI.new("html3")

if (cgi['process'])
 ## begin 'require'd file

 date = cgi['date']  # this doesn't work when it lives in a
                     # different file or in the eruby file
 # process the date to make ensure it fits our defined format
 # write the date and other POSTed data into a file

 ## end 'require'd file

else

 # create a form to gather the required data

end
============

Just for clarity, I built ruby and eruby from the same tarballs for both
machines.  I'd be happy to dig more information out as needed.

thanks,
-pate

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