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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 7, 2008, 4:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-in-html/136884 "2008-05-07T04:12:56Z")\
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**Author:**  [@sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sithadmin)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 4:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-in-html/136884/1 "2008-05-07T04:12:56Z")
Hello,
I’ve been googling this, but with no concrete answers… Ruby 186-26 is
installed on my system - I was wondering if I could use Ruby in HTML
files that are just on my local machine. Thus far I’ve been
unsuccessful. I’d just like to do some reading of local files and
parsing then show it in the browser. Can I do this with Ruby? If so, any
suggestions as to how?
Thanks!
- Jeff M.
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**Author:**  [@sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sithadmin)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 5:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-in-html/136884/2 "2008-05-07T05:36:21Z")
On May 6, 2008, at 8:12 PM, Jeff M. wrote:
> Hello,
> I’ve been googling this, but with no concrete answers… Ruby 186-26
> is
> installed on my system - I was wondering if I could use Ruby in HTML
> files that are just on my local machine. Thus far I’ve been
> unsuccessful. I’d just like to do some reading of local files and
> parsing then show it in the browser. Can I do this with Ruby? If so,
> any
> suggestions as to how?
Might you be looking for something like Webby?
[http://webby.rubyforge.org/](http://webby.rubyforge.org/)
It’s a tool for generating HTML files from other text files containing
markup (textile, markdown, haml, or HTML with embedded Ruby). It
includes the Heel webserver for displaying local pages after they are
rendered. Read through the Webby tutorial and see if that meets your
needs.
Blessings,
TwP
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**Author:**  [@sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sithadmin)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 9:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-in-html/136884/3 "2008-05-07T09:21:04Z")
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Jeff M. wrote:
| Hello,
| I’ve been googling this, but with no concrete answers… Ruby 186-26 is
| installed on my system - I was wondering if I could use Ruby in HTML
| files that are just on my local machine. Thus far I’ve been
| unsuccessful. I’d just like to do some reading of local files and
| parsing then show it in the browser. Can I do this with Ruby? If so, any
| suggestions as to how?
Rails and Merb are probably the easiest way to get started.
Otherwise, look for ERb or eruby, and you might want to try your hand at
mod\_ruby (which is ok to run one concurrent instance of Ruby, it might
get interesting with more than one).
* * *
Phillip G.
Twitter: [twitter.com/cynicalryan](http://twitter.com/cynicalryan)
Blog: [http://justarubyist.blogspot.com](http://justarubyist.blogspot.com)
Write and test a big program in small pieces.
~ - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plaugher)
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**Author:**  [@sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sithadmin)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 7:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-in-html/136884/4 "2008-05-08T07:13:08Z")
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 11:12:56AM +0900, Jeff M. wrote:
> Hello,
> I’ve been googling this, but with no concrete answers… Ruby 186-26 is
> installed on my system - I was wondering if I could use Ruby in HTML
> files that are just on my local machine. Thus far I’ve been
> unsuccessful. I’d just like to do some reading of local files and
> parsing then show it in the browser. Can I do this with Ruby? If so, any
> suggestions as to how?
Do you mean use ruby to serve the local html files to your browser?
This can be
accomplished with the ‘heel’ gem.
gem install heel
heel -r directory/to/html/files
If you mean parse the html files and extract information from them, you
would
probably want to look at ‘hpricot’.
[http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/](http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/)
enjoy,
-jeremy