Ruby without Rails

[The New Guy]

I am warming up to Ruby. However, I am not overly keen on Rails as for right now, but mabye in the future.

How could I setup Ruby (only) test setup where I could run some web stuff written in Ruby?

[vgarcia]

mod_ruby
ERB

Or if you want to try an alternative Ruby framework, Nitro

[The New Guy]

Any place to get a build of Modruby?

[vgarcia]

Any place to get a build of Modruby?

mod_ruby.so from here is the only place I can seem to find it

You might also want to try Mongrel, but I've never used it and have no idea how to set it up, with or without Rails.

[Luke Redpath]

You could also look at Camping.

[The New Guy]

Honestly, I don't want a framework at all. I really want to play with the language as is.

[vgarcia]

Honestly, I don't want a framework at all. I really want to play with the language as is.

In that case you should probably just use plain old WEBrick and WEBrick servlets. It should be fine for testing and tinkering.

[IAIHMB]

Try eruby, it will allow you to use Ruby in a PHP like way. You can read the installation instructions here under the "Installing eruby in Apache" heading. Hope it helps.

[Luke Redpath]

FWIW, if you just want to use Ruby embedded in web pages without any kind of framework, you are probably better of just using PHP. A better way of learning Ruby would be to try and write some non-web based scripts in my opinion.

In fact, an even better way to learn Ruby is using Test::Unit.

http://clarkware.com/cgi/blosxom/2005/03/18

[stereofrog]

I am warming up to Ruby. However, I am not overly keen on Rails as for right now, but mabye in the future.

How could I setup Ruby (only) test setup where I could run some web stuff written in Ruby?

I'd start with plain old CGI. For just playing with the language it's more than sufficent. The setup is extremely easy:

1. Install apache
2. Install ruby
3. In apache's CGI directory (usually htdocs/cgi-bin) create the test.rb file as follows

#!path/to/the/ruby/binary
require 'CGI'
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n"

print "hello web"

4. Browse to http://localhost/cgi-bin/test.rb.
5. If doesn't work, check apache error.log
6. If works, try adding more code (after line 3, first three are required).

[The New Guy]

I'd start with plain old CGI. For just playing with the language it's more than sufficent. The setup is extremely easy:

1. Install apache
2. Install ruby
3. In apache's CGI directory (usually htdocs/cgi-bin) create the test.rb file as follows

 #!path/to/the/ruby/binary
 require 'CGI'
 print "Content-type:text/html\n\n"
 
 print "hello web"

4. Browse to http://localhost/cgi-bin/test.rb.
5. If doesn't work, check apache error.log
6. If works, try adding more code (after line 3, first three are required).

AH! Finally. I was just about to chuck ruby in the trash. Thanks.

On a related note, I should be using rubyw.exe rather then ruby.exe right?

[Fenrir2]

rubyw.exe doesn't create a console window, ruby.exe does. rubyw.exe is for gui applications when you don't want a visible console.

[The New Guy]

So, is that a yes?

[Fenrir2]

I think you should use the console version (regular ruby.exe), but maybe it doesn't matter.