From: Armin Roehrl <armin@...>
Date: 2002-10-22T07:19:05+09:00
Subject: Re: using eruby offline

> I have a *.rhtml file which takes quite a bit of time to be generated
> dynamically using mod_ruby and eruby.  Since the data the page is
> gathering only changes once a day, I'd like to setup a cron job which
> will execute the page through eruby and dump the resulting html into a
> regular static *.html file.  However, when I execute "eruby
> testpage.rhtml > testpage.html" from a terminal, eruby executes in
> offline mode and prompts me for name=value pairs.  Is there anyway to
> disable this prompt so that eruby will just create the html without
> waiting for user input before proceeding?  Any help is appreciated.
Try to pipe sth. in.

touch nothing #makes an empty file
ruby fobar2.rb  < nothing

If you want to set the values put them into the file
nothing. It will be as if you typed it on the keyboard.

Bye,
	-A.

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