I've written some ruby CGI scripts (using the Ruby CGI class) that I serve from my production server using lighttpd. I want to test them on my development server using thin. Basically, I want to drop all my CGI scripts in a directory and start thin in that directory. Then, any requests to http://localhost:3000/<script> should just execute <script> in the current directory and return the results. If thin has a built-in way of doing this, I can't find it. I would imagine the Rack config file for this is easy if you know what you're doing, but I don't.
Update:
This rackup file seems to work. I'm not sure if it's the best solution, but it should be fine for a development environment.
run(lambda do |env|
require 'rubygems'
require 'systemu'
script = env['REQUEST_PATH'][1..-1] + '.rb'
response = ''
err = ''
systemu(['ruby', script], 'stdout' => response, 'stderr' => err, 'env' => {
'foo' => 'bar' })
if err.length > 0
[ 500, {'Content-Type' => 'text/plain'}, err ]
else
idx = 0
status = -1
headers = {}
while true
line_end = response.index("\n", idx)
line = response[idx..line_end].strip
idx = line_end+1
if status < 0
if line =~ /(\d\d\d)/
status = $1.to_i
else
raise "Invalid status line: #{line}"
end
elsif line.empty?
break
else
name, value = line.split /: ?/
headers[name] = value
end
end
content = response[idx..-1]
[status, headers, content]
end
end)