comp.lang.ruby

James Britt

10/27/2006 12:37:00 AM

phalcos wrote:
> Hello Rubygroup,
>
> Im quite new to Ruby (unexpected heh?) but is currently planning on
> building a website community with it just in order to see how powerful
> it accually can be. I usually use PHP when building webapplications but
> since ruby works great for that too, I was curious and thus I have some
> (yes, newbie-) questions. I have already Installed Ruby as a module for
> apache, so that part works perfect, I've also read some of the
> documents on http://www.rub...
>
> 1. How can I make sure the userinput only contains certain characters?
> Like if I only want my users to be able to give me [A-Za-z0-9], is
> regex the only alternative?
>
> 2. Is there any builtin method for converting html-characters into safe
> input, like what htmlspecialchars in PHP does?
>
> 3. Methods for SQL database storage?
>
> 3. Anything else I should think about?


You are encouraged to build your own Web tools; Ruby is quite good for
that. However, you may want to consider one of the existing Ruby Web
frameworks, such as IOWA, Nitro, Rails, Merb, Camping, or Cerise.

Each has a different opinion on Web development; perhaps one will suit you.

>
>
> If not, wish me luck. =)

Good luck!


Be sure to ask lots of questions here.


--
James Britt

"A principle or axiom is of no value without the rules for applying it."
- Len Bullard