Re: [PATCH] instaweb: support for Ruby's WEBrick server

From: Mike Dalessio <mike@csa.net>
Date: Sep 17, 2007, 13:55 UTC
Message-ID: <618c07250709170655p649a71fdwcfaaa4d5bfcd06ff@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <823axd32dz.fsf@mid.bfk.de>

I could generate a second /bin/sh script to run
  "ruby .../webrick.rb"
This would assume that 'ruby' was in the user's $PATH, but that seems
like a reasonable expectation.

The drawback is that we'd be generating TWO scripts, one ruby script to invoke the server, and one shell script to run the ruby script. This seems a little ... circuitous.

Another idea is to hack the $httpd variable to contain a command string like "ruby .../webrick.rb", with the drawback then being a lack of obviousness, since the convention is that the variable contains the same command as the --httpd argument, and is named the same as the <webserver>_conf() functions.

On 9/17/07, Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de> wrote:

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> * Thomas Adam:
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> > This is what /usr/bin/env is useful for, but it's not that portable.
>
> Yeah, it's /bin/env exclusively on some systems. 8-(
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