From: Mark Hubbart <discord@...>
Date: 2004-03-13T04:05:13+09:00
Subject: Re: convincing a webhost to support ruby


On Mar 12, 2004, at 6:14 AM, Daniel Cremer wrote:

>> Building it myself in my HOME is a possibility. But AFAIK, there's no
>> way of running eruby as a standard cgi script. So I would also have to
>> install and run webrick or somesuch in my home. I would really rather
>> not have to do that.
>>
>> --Mark
>
> I was able to run eruby no problem as a standard CGI. Is there any
> reason why you believe it might be a problem ?

Really? Could you share the general setup? For me, naming it 
script.cgi, adding a shebang line and making it executable didn't work. 
It would send the shebang line before I could send headers, so it 
always failed. And that's the only way I knew... But I'm probably just 
ignorant :)


> If one would like to try ruby with a normal host and they have a linux
> box, I would recommend just building it on the local machine and
> uploading it to the cgi-bin of the webhost. At least for me, I've had
> no problems when I taken this approach.

well, it would have to be compiled on their box. Theirs is i386-linux, 
mine is powerpc-darwin (yeah, a mac), so... :)

--Mark