T
Toby Rodwell
I'm not a programmer, but like to use Ruby for writing simple programs,
mainly for helping with my day job (as a network engineer). My normal
method of coding is to take an example out a book ("The Pragmatic
Programmers Guide", what else?
) and tailor/expand it to to my needs.
I've just written a program which produces its results in HTML, for
convenient viewing. I'm feeling a little more ambitious now and would
like now to get a *small* amount of interaction using simple forms.
However, I'm not really getting past the first hurdle. I *thought* that
putting
<form method="post" action="<path_to_ruby_script>">
"STUFF"
<input type ="submit" />
</form>
... would run the script indicated. Instead I get a '404' "The
requested URL <path...> was not found on this server."
I also tried
<form target="<path_to_ruby_script>"> ...
<input type ="submit" />
</form>
In fact, I tried this version first but it neither worked nor gave me
any errors. I know the script in question itself works because I can
run it from the command line (plus it is just creating a 'Hello World!'
file) - which is to say I chmod 755 the file and started it with the
path to the Ruby bin.
I'm probably missing something really basic, and any advice would be
gratefully received.
thanks in advance
mainly for helping with my day job (as a network engineer). My normal
method of coding is to take an example out a book ("The Pragmatic
Programmers Guide", what else?
) and tailor/expand it to to my needs.I've just written a program which produces its results in HTML, for
convenient viewing. I'm feeling a little more ambitious now and would
like now to get a *small* amount of interaction using simple forms.
However, I'm not really getting past the first hurdle. I *thought* that
putting
<form method="post" action="<path_to_ruby_script>">
"STUFF"
<input type ="submit" />
</form>
... would run the script indicated. Instead I get a '404' "The
requested URL <path...> was not found on this server."
I also tried
<form target="<path_to_ruby_script>"> ...
<input type ="submit" />
</form>
In fact, I tried this version first but it neither worked nor gave me
any errors. I know the script in question itself works because I can
run it from the command line (plus it is just creating a 'Hello World!'
file) - which is to say I chmod 755 the file and started it with the
path to the Ruby bin.
I'm probably missing something really basic, and any advice would be
gratefully received.
thanks in advance