# Web Ruby w/o Rails **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [June 23, 2007, 11:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-ruby-w-o-rails/107608 "2007-06-23T23:44:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SSSSSSSSS\_SSSSSSSS\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@SSSSSSSSS\_SSSSSSSS\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SSSSSSSSS_SSSSSSSS_S)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 11:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-ruby-w-o-rails/107608/1 "2007-06-23T23:44:55Z")
Hi, I want to start developing a web application in Ruby, but can’t configure it to work. There are so much options that I get confused 🙂 eruby, mod\_ruby (which I think, but unsure, is depreciated), cgi, fastcgi… I can’t get the simple “hello world” ☹ I’m with strong C# and PHP background, currently using PHP but hitting it’s limits for some time now, basically because of the lack of late static binding. I will be very grateful if you help me get started. Regards, Emil I. ---
**Author:** ![SSSSSSSSS\_SSSSSSSS\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@SSSSSSSSS\_SSSSSSSS\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SSSSSSSSS_SSSSSSSS_S)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2007, 12:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-ruby-w-o-rails/107608/2 "2007-06-24T00:34:00Z")
Emil - what are you using as a web server? Platform? Configured to recognize and run ruby files? You said you can’t get it to work, but what does that mean? What happens on the browser? What appears in the logs? ---
**Author:** ![SSSSSSSSS\_SSSSSSSS\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@SSSSSSSSS\_SSSSSSSS\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SSSSSSSSS_SSSSSSSS_S)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2007, 12:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-ruby-w-o-rails/107608/3 "2007-06-24T00:56:02Z")
Hey Emil, If you think it might help and you’re on windows I could send you my notes for setting up a web-based ruby-on-rails application. It uses lighttpd to serve it up and sqlite for the back end. Let me know if you want them, maybe they’ll help you get started. - David Емил Иванов / Emil I. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: Hi, I want to start developing a web application in Ruby, but can’t configure it to work. There are so much options that I get confused 🙂 eruby, mod\_ruby (which I think, but unsure, is depreciated), cgi, fastcgi… I can’t get the simple “hello world” ☹ I’m with strong C# and PHP background, currently using PHP but hitting it’s limits for some time now, basically because of the lack of late static binding. I will be very grateful if you help me get started. ## Regards, Emil I. My place to share my ideas: [http://vladev.blogspot.com](http://vladev.blogspot.com) ---
**Author:** ![SSSSSSSSS\_SSSSSSSS\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@SSSSSSSSS\_SSSSSSSS\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SSSSSSSSS_SSSSSSSS_S)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2007, 3:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-ruby-w-o-rails/107608/4 "2007-06-24T03:20:12Z")
Hi Emil, Have you had a look at Camping: [http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/camping/](http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/camping/). It looks pretty cool. It has instructions for serving your app with lighttpd and apache. Cheers, Mark ---
**Author:** ![SSSSSSSSS\_SSSSSSSS\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@SSSSSSSSS\_SSSSSSSS\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SSSSSSSSS_SSSSSSSS_S)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 11:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-ruby-w-o-rails/107608/5 "2007-09-25T23:01:17Z")
> I want to start developing a web application in Ruby, but can’t configure it > to work. There are so much options that I get confused 🙂 > eruby, mod\_ruby (which I think, but unsure, is depreciated), cgi, fastcgi… > > I can’t get the simple “hello world” ☹ > > I’m with strong C# and PHP background > […] > Add an HTTP background and you will be fine. 🙂 > I will be very grateful if you help me get started. We do not know what environment you are working in and what your experience/knowledge is. So, sorry if this answer is too basic or trivial. The most common thing that is very likely to be available on whatever web server you are using might be CGI. Very likely that your web server has a directory called cgi-bin. Ask your sysadmin or - for Apache - check the httpd.conf to see details. Assuming your web server has such a directory and the execution of CGIs is enabled there (most often the default setting), create a file in this directory, name it ‘test.rb’ and put the following in this file: #!/usr/local/bin/ruby puts “Content-Type: text/plain\n\n”, “Hello world” Of course,this is a very basic way to work. However, using the modules ERB and CGI it is even possible to keep design and logic separated. It doesn’t work? - chmod 755 test.rb - Did you forget the two newlines after the Content-Type line? - Ask the administrator if your web server configured to run CGIs. HM ---
**Author:** ![SSSSSSSSS\_SSSSSSSS\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@SSSSSSSSS\_SSSSSSSS\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SSSSSSSSS_SSSSSSSS_S)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2007, 3:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-ruby-w-o-rails/107608/6 "2007-06-24T03:39:17Z")
??? ??? / Emil I. wrote: > Hi, > > I want to start developing a web application in Ruby, but can’t > configure it > to work. There are so much options that I get confused 🙂 > eruby, mod\_ruby (which I think, but unsure, is depreciated), cgi, > fastcgi… > > I can’t get the simple “hello world” ☹ Take a look at Nitro. Here’s a Web “app” in a Ruby one-liner: $ ruby -rubygems -e “require ‘nitro’; class C; def index; print ‘Hello, world!’;end;end; Nitro.start(C)” Browse to 127.0.0.1:9000 to see the results. How simple or complex you want your app to be is up to you. See [http://nitroproject.com/](http://nitroproject.com/) ---
**Author:** ![SSSSSSSSS\_SSSSSSSS\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@SSSSSSSSS\_SSSSSSSS\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SSSSSSSSS_SSSSSSSS_S)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 11:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-ruby-w-o-rails/107608/7 "2007-09-25T23:10:52Z")
On 24 Jun 2007, at 09:16, Емил Иванов / Emil I. wrote: > configure it for ruby. I also want that erb to work, but i think I > will > since it’s written in ruby. Hi Emil, If you want some examples of how to do this stuff from scratch, my RailsConf Europe presentation from last year is available at http:// [Camping: Going off the Rails with Ruby](http://www.slideshare.net/feyeleanor/camping-going-off-the-rails-with-ruby). A significant proportion of the text covers how to roll your own web application framework using WEBrick and the code examples should be sufficient for that purpose. Ellie ## Eleanor McHugh Games With Brains raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds\_to? :reason ---
**Author:** ![SSSSSSSSS\_SSSSSSSS\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@SSSSSSSSS\_SSSSSSSS\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SSSSSSSSS_SSSSSSSS_S)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 11:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-ruby-w-o-rails/107608/8 "2007-09-25T23:10:16Z")
Thank you for responding so fast to all of you! The platform is a Windows XP, Apache 2 and 2.2, MySQL 5 as a database. (I must have been sleeping while I was writing the post…) Note that I don’t want any frameworks, although I will check the one you suggested - I just want a simple hello world for now. The fastcgi module is installed on the apache 2, but I don’t know how to configure it for ruby. I also want that erb to work, but i think I will since it’s written in ruby. Regards, Emil I.