From: Peter Zotov <whitequark@...>
Date: 2009-06-19T04:04:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Auto-Require some .rb files for specific .cgi page

Marc Heiler wrote:
> I am using Linux + Apache + ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-08 patchlevel 173)
> 
> I use quite many .cgi pages which are nothing more than .rb files
> which output a html string.
> 
> I found that every of this .cgi page requires my "web.rb" file.
> 
> Is it somehow possible to auto-load this file _without_ doing
> require 'web.rb'? It is tedious to require that web.rb for every
> ruby .cgi page. I wonder if what I would like to have is
> somehow possible at all.

You can add '-r somefile.rb' to ruby command string, so the whole 
command will become 'ruby -r web.rb script.rb', for example. Try 
modifying shebang line/apache options/etc. for this.

-- 
   WBR, Peter Zotov