From: mycorner6@... (Michele) Date: 2002-03-14T21:46:14+09:00 Subject: Problems with Ruby, apache, and cgi I'm a systems admin for a webhosting company. We had a request for ruby for one of the websites, and agreed to install ruby, but not mod_ruby because of the memory leak issue with apache. The client seems to feel his programs will only work with mod_ruby. We put up a test script to ensure ruby worked from within apache, a simple hello world: #!/usr/local/bin/ruby print "Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n" print "Hello SAm and Lisa!!!!\r\n" This runs successfully when going to /cgi-bin/test.rb However, when the client tries a more complicated script: #!/usr/local/bin/ruby class Hello attr_reader :msg def initialize @msg = "Hello, World" end end h = Hello.new puts h.msg print "Press RETURN" $stdin.gets This fails. Note I can run the first script at the command line by simply typing ./test.rb, but the 2nd one fails with the same error as the website: ../hello.rb ../hello.rb: Command not found. If i run /usr/local/bin/ruby hello.rb, it runs successfully. I guess my question is are there things that mod_ruby can do that a regular ruby script can't? My reading at the mod_ruby site implies that it simply speeds it up, but that it doesn't add functionality. Is there something wrong with my client's program? Any suggestions on how to make this work without mod_ruby? Thanks. -Michele