From: Francis Hwang <sera@...>
Date: 2002-05-17T00:00:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Digest Articles 40486-40493 (1/1) (ruby-talk ML)

Patrick May wrote:
>Francis Hwang <sera@fhwang.net> wrote in message 
>news:<a05100303b90814b951e1@[10.0.1.3]>...
>>  After struggling with eRuby and CGI::Session for a little while, I
>>  think I may have discovered something strange with how they are
>>  interacting. Or maybe I'm making a newbie mistake, I dunno.
>>
>>  Here's the problem: I'm trying to set a session in an .rhtml file,
>>  and then retrieve it from another .rhtml file. My browser receives
>>  the session cookie, but the path has been set automatically to
>>  /cgi-bin/. I'm suspecting that this is because eruby lives in
>>  /cgi-bin/.
>>
>>  The problem, though, is that when I look for the cookie, my browser
>>  won't send it. Because the page is an .rhtml that doesn't actually
>>  live in /cgi-bin/ -- it just lives in the document root.
>>
>>  Has anybody else had to deal with this problem? Is there a simple
>>  workaround I'm missing?
>
>This sounds like an odd situation.  How are you running eruby?  are
>you directly creating the cgi, or is this something that your
>enviroment is doing for you?

I added these lines to httpd.conf:

AddType application/x-httpd-eruby .rhtml
Action application/x-httpd-eruby /cgi-bin/eruby
AddHandler cgi-script .rb
<Directory /home/httpd/rubyproject/html/>
      Options ExecCGI
</Directory>

... all of which is pretty standard stuff, I'd imagine.

Francis
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