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Can't get basic CGI and Form submission working

Toby Rodwell

5/13/2007 6:13:00 PM

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

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