ruby website code ignores function

[Edward]

When I run the following script as a web page, it ignores the output of
my function and doesn't print the "test2" as if there is a problem with
the function. How can I fix this? I pasted the code below.

View Example: http://www.tanguay.info/learnruby/nofunction.rb

Thanks,

Edward Tanguay
All my projects: http://www.tanguay.info

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#!/usr/bin/ruby
print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n"

3.times { print "Hello World\n" }
print "test1"
print sayHello("Jim")
print "test2"

def sayHello(name)
result = "Hello" + name
return result
end

 

[ara.t.howard]

When I run the following script as a web page, it ignores the output of
my function and doesn't print the "test2" as if there is a problem with
the function. How can I fix this? I pasted the code below.

View Example: http://www.tanguay.info/learnruby/nofunction.rb

Thanks,

Edward Tanguay
All my projects: http://www.tanguay.info

=====================================

#!/usr/bin/ruby
print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n"

3.times { print "Hello World\n" }
print "test1"
print sayHello("Jim")
print "test2"

def sayHello(name)
result = "Hello" + name
return result
end

as with cgis in any language, always, always, always make sure they can run
from the command line, preferably as the webuser. doing so in this can shows:

harp:~ > cat a.rb
#!/usr/bin/ruby
print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n"

3.times { print "Hello World\n" }
print "test1"
print sayHello("Jim")
print "test2"

def sayHello(name)
result = "Hello" + name
return result
end



harp:~ > ruby a.rb </dev/null
Content-type: text/plain

Hello World
Hello World
Hello World
a.rb:6: undefined method `sayHello' for main:Object (NoMethodError)


in ruby, functions must be defined before they are used.

kind regards.

-a

 

[Edward]

right, I didn't have ruby installed locally (windows) but I can ssh
onto the site and test it there, THANKS for the tip!

Edward Tanguay
All my projects: http://www.tanguay.info