Ruby based website 101

I would like to do a simple interactive ruby / apache website (not lamp, lamr ).

I would like to do a simple form, name, and pick from vanilla, chocolate or strawberry.

In days gone by I have done perl / CGI site however ruby cgi will not scale so you use mod_perl.

How does this work in Ruby ?

I am running in redhat linux 5.3

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You can do cgi programming with any language, ruby is not exception. For such "simple" tasks youu may loke to check the cgi area of ruby

http://coolnamehere.com/geekery/ruby/web/cgi.html

So I do not understand why one should bother with scaling such an application...

If the stuff get's larger you might like to check out Rails. Howerver in your case it surely would be overkill.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
  <head>
    <title>cgi with Ruby</title>
  </head>
 
  <body>
    <h1>CGI with Ruby</h1>
    <form action="cgi/cgi_ruby.cgi" method="get">
      <p>Please give me some name
        <input name="name" type="text" size="30" maxlength="30">
        </p>
      <p>
        <select name="flavour" size="3">
          <option>vanilla</option>
          <option>chocolate</option>
          <option>strawberry</option>
        </select>
 
      </p>
      <p>
        <input type="submit" value=" Absenden ">
        </p>
    </form>
 
 
 
    <hr>
    <!-- Created: Sat Feb  3 08:35:25 CET 2007 -->
<!-- hhmts start -->
Last modified: Wed Jul 29 07:49:02 CEST 2009
<!-- hhmts end -->
  </body>
</html>
 
 
And the ruby script for "handling" this form:
#!/usr/bin/ruby
require "resolv"
require 'cgi'
 
cgi = CGI.new
name = cgi['name']
flavour = cgi['flavour']
 
print("Content-type: text/html\n\n")
print("<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\">\n" +
     "   <html>\n" +
     "      <head>\n" +
     "         <title>Ruby Script answer</title>\n" +
     "      </head>\n" +
     "      <body>\n")
 
print("         <p> Name was = #{name}, flavour = #{flavour}</p>\n")
print( "    </body>\n" +
      "  </html>")

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