Using eruby offline

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I have a *.rhtml file which takes quite a bit of time to be generated
dynamically using mod_ruby and eruby. Since the data the page is
gathering only changes once a day, I’d like to setup a cron job which
will execute the page through eruby and dump the resulting html into a
regular static *.html file. However, when I execute “eruby
testpage.rhtml > testpage.html” from a terminal, eruby executes in
offline mode and prompts me for name=value pairs. Is there anyway to
disable this prompt so that eruby will just create the html without
waiting for user input before proceeding? Any help is appreciated.

Kyle

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I have a *.rhtml file which takes quite a bit of time to be generated
dynamically using mod_ruby and eruby. Since the data the page is
gathering only changes once a day, I’d like to setup a cron job which
will execute the page through eruby and dump the resulting html into a
regular static *.html file. However, when I execute “eruby
testpage.rhtml > testpage.html” from a terminal, eruby executes in
offline mode and prompts me for name=value pairs. Is there anyway to
disable this prompt so that eruby will just create the html without
waiting for user input before proceeding? Any help is appreciated.
Try to pipe sth. in.

touch nothing #makes an empty file
ruby fobar2.rb < nothing

If you want to set the values put them into the file
nothing. It will be as if you typed it on the keyboard.

Bye,
-A.

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Armin Roehrl, http://www.approximity.com

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That works great. Thanks!

Armin Roehrl wrote:

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I have a *.rhtml file which takes quite a bit of time to be generated
dynamically using mod_ruby and eruby. Since the data the page is
gathering only changes once a day, I’d like to setup a cron job which
will execute the page through eruby and dump the resulting html into a
regular static *.html file. However, when I execute “eruby
testpage.rhtml > testpage.html” from a terminal, eruby executes in
offline mode and prompts me for name=value pairs. Is there anyway to
disable this prompt so that eruby will just create the html without
waiting for user input before proceeding? Any help is appreciated.

Try to pipe sth. in.

touch nothing #makes an empty file
ruby fobar2.rb < nothing

If you want to set the values put them into the file
nothing. It will be as if you typed it on the keyboard.

Bye,
-A.

Armin Roehrl, http://www.approximity.com