Ruby doesnt work right

[flare]

I followed the instructions to install perl, and just changed the extension to .rb and it still doesnt wanna work
[url]v-com.sytes.net/hello.rb[/url]
an error 500

[TRUSTAbyss]

Perl Files are extensions with only basicly
.pl and .cgi , I have never seen an exten..
like that before as a perl file , looks weird.

[flare]

no no no, Ruby is a different scripting language all together...., but I used the perl install instructions, because when I searched ruby here in the forums, I found a post and it said use the perl install instructions, an just change the extensions.

[TRUSTAbyss]

Ok , you wasn't to specific , I see now lol !

[aprelium]

flare,

Installing Ruby is very simple (see http://www.aprelium.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=618).

It seems that you're getting error 500 because of your script? Are you sending the right CGI headers (with print "Content-type: text/html^/" for example)?

Can you post your script here so that we can review it?
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[flare]

class Hello
attr_reader :msg
def initialize
@msg = "Hello, World"
end
end

h = Hello.new
puts h.msg
print "Press RETURN"
$stdin.gets

its an example that came with Ruby... so im not sure what is actually supposed to look like.

[aprelium]

flare,

The example you used was not meant to be a CGI script. It is an interactive program that doesn't conform to the CGI standard.

A CGI script must send at least a header line, a blank line, and the body (that will be displayed in the client browser). Search for Ruby on this forum and you'll find a sample script.
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