From: Frank Fejes <frank@...>
Date: 2003-03-26T02:23:45+09:00
Subject: Re: RFC CGI.new(nil)

On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 16:41:42 +0000, ahoward wrote:

> 
> 
> rubyists-
> 
> how many of you are actually using the CGI tag methods?  i currently am using
> Amrita for all of my html generation and thus do not need my cgi objects to be
> dynamically extended with 'html3' or 'html4tr', etc.  also, as someone pointed
> out a week ago on this list it is this (the dynamic extension) part of CGI.new
> which is exceedingly slow.  is there any reason then why we should not be able
> to :
> 
>   cgi = CGI.new(nil)

I never use the tag methods.  I simply use the CGI module for pulling form
variables:

cgi = CGI.new

if cgi.has_key?('whatever') ...

--frank