Cgi:conference in austin

ruby-talk
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Hi All!
My first post - i’ve just signed up for the list and
here i find out about the conference in Austin. I live
on canyon lake 45 minutes away. How cool is that? Free
room and board for the weekend for only $999 american
per night. Less for female hotties. Really if yor
are strapped, drop me an e.

Anyway the reason i signup up was this. I’m a M$
developer, for about 6 years, trying to slide into
something cool and ruby seems to me a good server side
tool, along with its obvious other attributes.

However, i’ve run into some problems - mostly with the
CGI module. I mean no offense, and, really, am not
qualified to say, but i’m having some difficulty,
technically(mostly) and philisophically. Please
comment on or correct any assumptions i make below.

  1. Getting a post/get param, brings me an array by
    default whether i like it or not?

  2. I can not differentiate between a get and a post?
    ie: CGI::Request.Form(param);
    CGI::Request.QueryString(param) or something like
    that?

  3. Sessions, do i need to roll an id for each session?
    If so, should this not be a part of the module? Not as
    important…thinking… what about pickling?
    (maintaining an object between requests)

If i could program my way out of a paper bag i would
not be doing web programming and might jump right into
CGI.rb and fix/alter/augment these things to suit
myself but was wondering if others have had similar
first rides with web ruby.

TBH, ASP’s request / response loop is quite
intuitive and might be considered useful for
implementation ideas in ruby.

Form:Request.Form(‘param’)
QString:Request.QueryString(‘param’)
Either : Request(‘param’) # post takes priority

if Session(‘param’)
param = Session(‘param’)
else

param = Session.new(‘param’)

end

Or something. IMO, CGI will be critical to the success
of server-side ruby and if we all go off rolling our
own it may fracture a cornerstone of the tool…and
leave a lot of code dangling when sharing components.

Just some thots, thanks!

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I think the standard cgi library is not over appreciated,

for web development feel free to try (these are the projects I saw on
this list at least some times):

  • eruby/ERB embedded code a-la PHP/ASP/JSP
  • amrita (similar to HTML::Mason)
  • NARF (enhanced cgi lib)
  • CGIKit (similar to webObjects)
  • IOWA web app develkopment framework

and our 5 application servers:
Roach, Borges, Radical, Mephle, Cerise

Hope I remember all this stuff correctly and didn’t forgot someone :wink:

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il Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:37:17 +0900, paul vudmaska paul_vudmaska@yahoo.com ha scritto::