From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-03-12T20:57:00+09:00
Subject: Re: (noob) Help with variables

2010/3/11 James Dewey <admin@ryuujinx.com>:
> Robert Klemme wrote:
>> Not sure what you mean by "grab variables".  If you need to evaluate
>> HTML form variables you can use
>> http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/CGI.html
>>
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> robert
>
> Basically I want to be able to get variables from posting forms.
>
> In PHP I would want to do something along the lines of
>
> <form action="somepage.php" method="post">
> <input type="text" name="somevar">
> <input type="submit">
> </form>
>
> then on somepage.php use
>
> The var on the last page was<?php echo $_POST["somevar"]; ?>
>
> Only using ruby; in the article you linked I see CGI::Query that could
> probably work if I use the GET method for the form instead of the POST
> method; is there a way to use POST like shown with the php example?

Google for "ruby cgi post" reveals this as first hit:
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/ruby/ruby_web_applications.htm

<quote>Note: Ruby will take care of GET and POST methods
automatically. There is no separate treament for these two different
methods.</quote>

Cheers

robert

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