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red-o-alf
red-o-alf

Reputation: 3245

Ruby in HTML like PHP

What would be the closest thing to having Ruby in HTML like for PHP with <?php ?> tags?

Can it be done without the need of frameworks that impose website structure or without the need to run Ruby servers, ecc... ?

Is there a way?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 649

Answers (3)

red-o-alf
red-o-alf

Reputation: 3245

rack-server-pages

Rack middleware and application for serving dynamic pages in very simple way. There are no controllers or models, just only views like a jsp, asp and php!

https://github.com/migrs/rack-server-pages

https://stackoverflow.com/a/32938202/988591

You can run it with "rackup" or any app server supporting rack. For example with passenger you just need to go to the folder where config.ru is and run "passenger start".

Upvotes: 2

Matt Walston
Matt Walston

Reputation: 119

You can cram as much logic in a template as you wish, but you still need an application server. PHP has this as mod_php or through FastCGI, etc. Ruby offers many options. Consider serve or create a bare bones sinatra app.

Consider what ends you are trying to achieve. This is generally poor practice and many people moved from the old style PHP to more modern frameworks which avoid this pitfall. This may be why only 2 people use it and you can't find any tutorials.

Upvotes: 1

Guilherme Viebig
Guilherme Viebig

Reputation: 6930

You're looking for erb files.

Open a test.erb file and write this down:

<h1><%= "hello" %></h1>

then run it with:

ruby -rerb -e 'puts ERB.new(File.read("test.erb")).result'

To run erb within a webser you need to wrap it somehow.

Here is a gem that does the job:

Serve - A Rapid Prototyping Framework for Web Applications

gem install serve

And then run it on the directory where your scripts are:

serve

The standard address is localhost:4000

Upvotes: 1

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