From: montana <montana@...99.bsd.st>
Date: 2002-11-27T04:07:41+09:00
Subject: Newbie CGI help please.

I tried the following basic cgi from the "Pickaxe":


require "cgi"
cgi = CGI.new("html3")  # add HTML generation methods
cgi.out{
  cgi.html{
    cgi.head{ "\n"+cgi.title{"This Is a Test"} } +
    cgi.body{ "\n"+
      cgi.form{"\n"+
        cgi.hr +
        cgi.h1 { "A Form: " } + "\n"+
        cgi.textarea("get_text") +"\n"+
        cgi.br +
        cgi.submit
      }
    }
  }
}


When I try to run this in my browser I get an error, so I checked my error_log to see what the problem was and found the following:

[Tue Nov 26 12:53:56 2002] [error] mod_ruby: error in ruby
/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/ruby/test.rb:5: undefined method `html' for #<CGI:0x4c1a30> (NameError)
        from /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/ruby/test.rb:4:in `out'
        from /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/ruby/test.rb:4
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.6/apache/ruby-run.rb:70:in `load'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.6/apache/ruby-run.rb:70:in `handler'
        from ruby:0

This looks like it is sayong that html is an undefined method.  What am I doing wrong here?

Thanks.
SA