# eRuby Fastcgi lighttpd deadend

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eruby-fastcgi-lighttpd-deadend/131477>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 10, 2008, 2:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eruby-fastcgi-lighttpd-deadend/131477 "2008-03-10T14:56:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 2:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eruby-fastcgi-lighttpd-deadend/131477/1 "2008-03-10T14:56:16Z")

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I have been trying to work out how to use eruby and fastcgi but it’s not  
an easy process. All the websites out there focus on rails and the ruby  
fastcgi library documentation is nonexistent.  
So far all I know for sure is I need to make a persistent ruby script.  
Name it something like dispatch.rb. Put that as the fastcgi binary in  
the lighttpd setting then use that script to forward input to the ruby  
pages for my site.

I was wondering in anyone knows of any tutorial for this or what I  
should read. Should I be trying to gain a better understanding of  
fastcgi or the ruby fastcgi library? In simple terms I don’t even know  
where to start.

I have made sites using eruby and the cgi standard library and found it  
very simple.

Normally I would never post something so trivial but I am totally stuck.