From: Ben Bleything <ben@...>
Date: 2011-02-17T02:53:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Receivein a Post Attribute

On Feb 16, 2011, at 8:56 AM, Quintus <sutniuq@gmx.net> wrote:

> Am 16.02.2011 16:41, schrieb Ivan Rodriguez:
>> Hi!
>> 
>> This should be quite easy but I can't for the life of me find a
>> solution.
>> 
>> I have the following form:
>> 
>> <form name="input" action="Main.rb" method="post">
>>    Url to examine: <input type="text" name="url"/>
>>    <input type="submit" value="analyzeUrl" />
>> </form>
>> 
>> As you see the action taken when the button is pressed involves a ruby
>> file "Main.rb".
>> 
>> The Apache-server has no problem interpreting the file. The problem is
>> how do I pass along the text written in the textfield.
>> 
>> I'm guessing I need to retrieve the text in Main.rb I've failed
>> miserably at that.
>> 
>> Main.rb contains only:
>> 
>> ARGV.each do|a|
>>  puts "#{a}";
>> end
>> 
>> But the only time it writes out anything is when I manually send
>> Main.rb?some_parameter. Then the printout will be "some_parameter".
>> 
>> 
>> Summary:
>> How do I retrieve the text from the text field in Ruby?
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks in advance
>> ...And sorry if this already has been answered. I did searched.
>> 
> 
> This is the Ruby mailing list, not the Rails one. Rails may be written
> in Ruby, but they have their own forum:
> http://www.ruby-forum.com/forum/rails
> 
> You're likely to get more answers there.

Except this isn't a rails question at all.

Ivan: you may want to look into the CGI module, which should abstract most of this stuff away and make it easier to do what you're trying to do.
> 


Ben