Rack::CGI ========= Let you using CGI in your rack application. Usage ----- Here is an example for using Rack::CGI # config.ru use Rack::CGI, cgi_path: 'cgi', index: 'index.cgi', Rack::CGI::Executable => '', /\.php$/ => '/usr/bin/php-cgi' use Rack::Static, urls: ['/'], root: 'cgi' run proc{ [404, {"CONTENT-TYPE" => "text/plain"}, ['404 Not Found']] } How to ----- ### Document Root In default, Rack::CGI will use Dir.pwd as document root, you can use `cgi_path: path` to change it. ### Index file When user access directory, Rack::CGI will use index script instand of. If you not special index, Rack::CGI will not have a default value, and it's not works. You can special index as follow: use Rack::CGI, index: 'index.php' # or special multiple, Rack::CGI will try each by order use Rack::CGI, index: ['index.php', 'index.cgi'] ### Rules When Rack::CGI found a script file in disk, it will try to find a rule to deal it. You can special multiple rules, in follow format: use Rack::CGI, match1 => deal1, match2 => deal2, match3 => deal3 ... `match` can be Rack::CGI::Executable or Regexp. Rack::CGI::Executable match all script that is executable. Regexp will try to match script full path. If none rules match, Rack::CGI will do nothing. Such as if you spacial Rack::CGI::Executable => "", and your file is not executable, Rack::CGI will not tell you file cannot executable, but just skiped. `deal` can be `nil`, `""`, `path_to_application`. If you special `nil`, nothing will happened, as if not matched. If you special `""`, script will be launched directly. Ensure script is executable. If you special `path_to_application`, application will be launched with script name. ### Directory redirect In some programs(such as phpBB), when you visit a dir without ending '/'. (Such as 'http://wps-community.org/forum') All relative resource will cannot accessed. In this case, we have to redirect 'http://wps-community.org/forum' to 'http://wps-community.org/forum/' to avoid this problem. You can use following code to open this feature. use Rack::CGI, ..., dir_redirect: true, ... ### Use Rack::CGI in Rails project Originally I intended to write a project named rails-cgi. But it's so trouble, and run Rack app in rails is not very complex. So I give up rails-cgi. Create a cgi controller $ rails g controller cgi Create a Rack Application in CgiController # You can changed arguments as you want CGI = Rack::Builder.new do use Rack::CGI, cgi_path: 'cgi', index: ['index.cgi', 'index.php'], Rack::CGI::Executable => '', /\.php$/ => '/usr/bin/php-cgi' use Rack::Static, urls: ['/'], root: 'cgi' run proc{ |env| raise ActionController::RoutingError, env['PATH_INFO'] + " not found!" } end Call Rack App in rails controller # add an action to controller def cgi [self.status, self.response.headers, self.response_body] = CGI.call env end # of course, you can add decoration code here, such as call rails layout Add route # add follow to config/routes.rb get '/cgi-bin/*path' => 'cgi#cgi' TODO ---- POST Request support