From: Martin Boese <boesemar@...>
Date: 2010-03-25T07:30:04+09:00
Subject: Re: call a ruby script from html

On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:05:10 +0900
Mario Ruiz <tcblues@gmail.com> wrote:

> What I'm trying to do is to call a ruby script that admits
> parameters. This program is going to be run locally.
> The problem is no parameters are taken since the explorers try to 
> download the file instead of running the file.
> 
> Another way to solve this would be to run directly the code on the 
> page... is that possible?
> 
> Thanks

I don't know of any browser what would execute the file, even if
the page was loaded locally....

But running a small local webserver will work. Ruby the code below and
then link to http://localhost:4000/run .

require 'webrick'

class RunScript < WEBrick::HTTPServlet::AbstractServlet
  def do_GET(req, res)
     system("c:/myS/search.rb param1 param2")
     res.status =  200
     res['Content-Type'] = 'text/html'     
     res.body = "<h1>Running Program</h1>"
  end
end


server = WEBrick::HTTPServer.new(:Port => 4000)
server.mount("/run",  RunScript)

trap("INT"){ server.shutdown }
server.start