gee don't know how i never noticed that before... thanks!

Cameron Matheson

On 11/18/05, Justin Collins <collinsj / seattleu.edu> wrote:
> Cam wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I need to make some simple web-pages at work for internal use
> > (changing svn password, modifying postfix email-aliases, etc).  I'd
> > like to use ruby for this.  I haven't really done anything w/
> > web-development in many years, and back then i was using php.  I know
> > that ruby on rails is the hottest thing ever right now, but it doesn't
> > seem like i should need database-centric stuff like that for the
> > simple web-apps i need to develop.  I found mod-ruby and have set it
> > up, but i'm not sure how to best use it now.    Is there any
> > documentation avaliable?  do i just use puts to output html streams,
> > or is that streamlined for me somehow?  How do i ask for input, etc.?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Cameron Matheson
> >
> http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/CGI.html
>
> The CGI class with the HTML extensions will take care of all the HTML
> output. For example:
>
> require 'cgi'
>
> cgi = Cgi.new('html4')
>
> cgi.out {
>
>     cgi.html {
>
>              cgi.body {
>
>                             "Hello!"
>              }
>     }
> }
>
>
> It has functions for nearly all HTML tags/forms/session/cookie stuff.
>
> -Justin
>
>