From: Kent Friis <nospam@...>
Date: 2009-08-23T08:05:05+09:00
Subject: Re: HTML posting to ruby script?

Den Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:07:33 -0500 skrev Brad Mr:
> Ok new to Ruby.
>
> I have an HTML form that I want a user to enter data, and when the
> SUBMIT button is pressed, the HTML POST (with the data) goes to a Ruby
> script to process the data (no web server running) into ruby variables
> to be used in other Ruby Scripts.
>
> Again this is meant to be able to run offline because ultimately this is
> all going into the "Titanium" app runtime (Similar to adobe AIR, but
> Ruby and Python runtimes are included), and like AIR can run on any
> platform.
>
> In short it becomes a multi-platform desktop app using HTML as the GUI.
>
> Question is, how do I get that ruby script to accept the POST and pull
> the data out to make the variables?

You need a webserver. Can be a simple one, can even be written in
Ruby, but you do need one.

/Kent
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