# CGIAlt 1.0.0 released - re-implementation of cgi.rb

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I have released CGIAlt 1.0.0.  
[http://cgialt.rubyforge.org/](http://cgialt.rubyforge.org/)  
[http://rubyforge.org/projects/cgialt/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/cgialt/)

CGIAlt is a re-implementation of ‘cgi.rb’.

## Features

- Compatible with ‘cgi.rb’ and CGI class
- Faster than ‘cgi.rb’
- Available with CGIExt (which is an implementation of cgi.rb in C  
extension)
- FastCGI support
- Ruby 1.9 support

## Install

$ tar xzf cgialt-1.0.0.tar.gz  
$ cd cgialt-1.0.0  
$ sudo ruby setup.rb

or

$ sudo gem install cgialt

## Usage

If you want to use CGIAlt instead of ‘cgi.rb’:

require ‘cgialt’

If you want to load ‘cgi.rb’ when CGIAlt is not installed:

begin  
require ‘cgialt’  
rescue LoadError  
require ‘cgi’  
end

If you want replace ‘cgi.rb’ with CGIAlt, create new ‘cgi.rb’:

$ cd /usr/local/lib/ruby1.8/site\_ruby  
$ sudo echo “require ‘cgialt’” \> cgi.rb

## Enhancements from 0.0.2

- Ruby 1.9 support
- Add tests for ‘cgialt/util.rb’.

## Changges from 0.0.2

- CGI class now uses CGI#env\_table() instead of using $CGI\_ENV  
directly.
- CGI class now uses CGI#stdinput() and CGI#stdoutput() instead of  
using $stdin and $stdout directly.
- Refactor ‘cgialt/fcgi/core.rb’.

## Bugfixes from 0.0.2

- CGI.parse() supports to parse ‘a=10&b’ (no ‘=’).
- CGI.parse() returned NoMethodError when QUERY\_STRING was “&=10”. Now  
fixed.
- CGI.unescapeHTML() couldn’t convert " ". Now fixed.
- Typo fixed in CGI::Cookie.parse().
- Move RFC822\_DAYS and RFC822\_MONTHS from ‘cgi/core.rb’ to ‘cgi/  
util.rb’.

## License

Ruby’s