Chapter 1. General Installation Considerations

Chapter 1. General Installation Considerations
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There are two ways to use ruby-web: as a replacement for cgi.rb, and as an extension to the Ruby interpreter. Installing ruby-web as a library is simple, and gives one access to the useful functions of ruby-web. There are a few additional features which can be provided at a higher level.

Dependencies

Both the library and interpreter installations of ruby-web depend on Ruby 1.8.x.

Scaling options include:

Library Features

Query parsing
Output and Header functions
Standard IO replacement
Compatibility with cgi.rb

Interpreter Features

All of the above, plus:

Web friendly reporting of all errors, including syntax errors
Dynamic web scripting with .rhtml documents, like php or coldfusion
Reduced boilerplate in scripts. Hello, World is just
```
puts 'Hello, World'
```
(planned) Consistent scope for interpreter state between requests across different server environments

ruby-web source code and binary distributions can be found at http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=873.

Finally, please note that these install instructions are a work in progress. Please report any problems at http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?group_id=873, so that we can solve your problem, and improve.