super simple serving of ruby pages

[anibalrojas]

This works fine:

eRuby: The Erb Alternative to Embedded Ruby in HTML
http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/node/3105

It is extremly easy to setup, I have tried this solution in 2 shared
hosting services without a problem.

 

[Jonathan Denni]

Thanks a lot. I didn't get it working. I put erb.cgi and a .htaccess in
/var/www/cgi-bin/ as directed in http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/node/3105
but I can't find out what kind of OS the server is using, and i cannot
create/edit files or directories in /bin or /usr/bin

at this point, it looks to me like i should give up trying to use ruby
on that server.

Thanks again for your help.

 

[James Britt]

On Sep 20, 2006, at 8:05 PM, James Britt wrote:


I'd be interested in seeing that James.

Here ya go!

http://jamesbritt.com/code/wb_erb.tgz

Fairly simple, few features, demos a few concepts.


--
James Britt

"Simplicity of the language is not what matters, but
simplicity of use."
- Richard A. O'Keefe in squeak-dev mailing list

 

[James Edward Gray II]

http://jamesbritt.com/code/wb_erb.tgz

Fairly simple, few features, demos a few concepts.

Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

I'll try and pay you back at least some of the effort by addressing
one of your TODOs. From your code:

# Windows only. TODO: figure out
# how to do the same thing on Mac and 'nix boxen.
Thread.new {
# Wait a bit for the server to start, then launch a Web browser
# to show the default page
sleep( 5 )
warn `start http://127.0.0.1:#{PORT}`
}

On Mac OS X, replace the word "start" with "open" and it will work.

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II

 

[khaines]

I've an example of this that's ~100 lines of code, if you're interested.

Maps URLs to classes and templates and renders them, using erb and Webrick.

I'd like to see it, just because I might find it educational.

I've also been wondering if framework support for this sort of thing, but
very simple to setup, would be useful to people?

Something akin to this:

app.rb
-----
require 'iowa'

Iowa.run
-----


app.cnf
-----
socket:
hostname: foo.bar.com
port: 3000
application:
dispatcher:
class: StandardDispatcher
mapfile: mapfile.cnf
-----


mapfile.cnf:
-----
:map:
/index.html: Index
/form.html: Myform
/response.html: Myresponse
-----


If one had an index.rhtml, myform.rhtml, and myresponse.rhtml, they would
be mapped to classes Index, Myform, and Myresponse, and requests for the
urls above would go to the class in question and be rendered as an erb
template.

You'd run it with:

ruby app.rb -r webrick
or
ruby app.rb -r mongrel

No other code or config necessary to serve those rhtml files. Would
anyone use this ability (as I personally would not). Worth my time to
make the above work?



Kirk haines

 

[Jonathan Denni]

Paul Lutus wrote:

Don't leave this script in place, just use it temporarily to find out
what's
going on.

how do i access the script output?

 

[Jonathan Denni]

how do i access the script output?

nevermind, I was able to try it but i just got an error message

 

[David Vallner]

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ahh, well, thats probably my problem. i'm using the cheapest server i
could find (canaca.com), which obviousely has no support for ruby. i was
hoping there was some shortcut way i could use ruby on my website
without having to change servers. is there some way to do that, or is it
totally hopeless?

Serve (part) of your website from your PC over which you have control?
If it's a personal website or to display some experiments, this should
be sufficient.

David Vallner
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