On 9/20/06, zerohalo <zerohalo / gmail.com> wrote: > [snip] > > > If the former, you can tell Apache to serve Ruby scripts that contain the > > usual CGI conventions. That seems simple enough. And it might not be what > > you are asking for. > > That's the part I'm missing. I find Apache extremely difficult to > configure (beyond the basics). How would I tell Apache to serve Ruby > scripts? On Debian and Ubuntu, it just works. After you apt-get install apache2, you just copy some foo.rb file (maybe like the one shown below) to /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ and then point your browser at http://localhost/cgi-bin/foo.rb and boom. :) ==== snip /usr/lib/cgi-bin/foo.rb ==== #!/opt/ruby/bin/ruby -w puts "Content-type: text/html" puts puts "<html><body> <p>The time is now #{Time.now}, so you'd better get crackin'! </p> </body> </html>" ==== /snip ==== ---John