* Making a CGI request to a program (fossil-scm) from Rack (Sinatra)
@ 2012-02-20 1:37 Guillermo Estrada
2012-02-20 13:18 ` Steve Klabnik
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From: Guillermo Estrada @ 2012-02-20 1:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Rack Development
Hi, I just hope this is the place where I'll find the answer.
Fossil-Scm is a Source Code Management System that has a built in web
server for tracking issues and a wiki and such. It supports CGI also
to avoid running long term processes while hosting multiple repos. The
documentation suggests creating a simple CGI script like this one for
each repo you would like to host:
#!/usr/bin/fossil
repository: /route/to/repo/name.fossil
And this is all fine and works wonders in my web hosting.
What I want to do is to create a Sinatra (Rack) app to manage those
repositories, user authentication, common operations, create, delete,
etc... But in order to do that, I want to be able to manipulate the
route and the output of those webpages called via CGI.
Is there a way to take a request from my Rack application, take some
parameters, send them to the program (fossil) as a CGI request (This I
don't know how) and then get the output html to analyze/modify/etc...
and then sending the response from my Rack app?
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
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2012-02-20 1:37 Making a CGI request to a program (fossil-scm) from Rack (Sinatra) Guillermo Estrada
@ 2012-02-20 13:18 ` Steve Klabnik
2012-02-20 16:24 ` Joshua Ballanco
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From: Steve Klabnik @ 2012-02-20 13:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: rack-devel
Is Faraday what you want?
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2012-02-20 1:37 Making a CGI request to a program (fossil-scm) from Rack (Sinatra) Guillermo Estrada
2012-02-20 13:18 ` Steve Klabnik
@ 2012-02-20 16:24 ` Joshua Ballanco
2012-02-20 19:29 ` Eric Wong
2012-02-20 21:08 ` James Tucker
3 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Joshua Ballanco @ 2012-02-20 16:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: rack-devel
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You might start by reading the wiki page for CGI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface (and, if you're up to it, read RFC3875 after that). The moral of the story is that a CGI script is just a script that expects a variety of environment variables describing the request made, and the POST/PUT body on stdin. With a little bit of experimentation, I expect you should be able to simply shell-out to Fossil to do what you want.
On Sunday, February 19, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Guillermo Estrada wrote:
> Hi, I just hope this is the place where I'll find the answer.
>
> Fossil-Scm is a Source Code Management System that has a built in web
> server for tracking issues and a wiki and such. It supports CGI also
> to avoid running long term processes while hosting multiple repos. The
> documentation suggests creating a simple CGI script like this one for
> each repo you would like to host:
>
> #!/usr/bin/fossil
> repository: /route/to/repo/name.fossil
>
> And this is all fine and works wonders in my web hosting.
>
> What I want to do is to create a Sinatra (Rack) app to manage those
> repositories, user authentication, common operations, create, delete,
> etc... But in order to do that, I want to be able to manipulate the
> route and the output of those webpages called via CGI.
>
> Is there a way to take a request from my Rack application, take some
> parameters, send them to the program (fossil) as a CGI request (This I
> don't know how) and then get the output html to analyze/modify/etc...
> and then sending the response from my Rack app?
>
> Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
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* Re: Making a CGI request to a program (fossil-scm) from Rack (Sinatra)
2012-02-20 1:37 Making a CGI request to a program (fossil-scm) from Rack (Sinatra) Guillermo Estrada
2012-02-20 13:18 ` Steve Klabnik
2012-02-20 16:24 ` Joshua Ballanco
@ 2012-02-20 19:29 ` Eric Wong
2012-02-21 0:41 ` Guillermo Estrada
2012-02-20 21:08 ` James Tucker
3 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Eric Wong @ 2012-02-20 19:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: rack-devel
Guillermo Estrada <phrozen10@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to take a request from my Rack application, take some
> parameters, send them to the program (fossil) as a CGI request (This I
> don't know how) and then get the output html to analyze/modify/etc...
> and then sending the response from my Rack app?
There's rack-legacy: git://github.com/eric1234/rack-legacy
unicorn still has a Unicorn::App::ExecCGI module I wrote
before rack-legacy existed:
http://bogomips.org/unicorn.git/tree/lib/unicorn/app/exec_cgi.rb
(The cgit instance on bogomips.org still runs off ExecCGI).
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* Re: Making a CGI request to a program (fossil-scm) from Rack (Sinatra)
2012-02-20 19:29 ` Eric Wong
@ 2012-02-21 0:41 ` Guillermo Estrada
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Guillermo Estrada @ 2012-02-21 0:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Rack Development
Rack-Legacy might be just EXACTLY what I was looking for :D Thanks for
the link. I just need to learn it and check if it's usable.
On Feb 20, 1:29 pm, Eric Wong <normalper...@yhbt.net> wrote:
> Guillermo Estrada <phroze...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there a way to take a request from my Rack application, take some
> > parameters, send them to the program (fossil) as a CGI request (This I
> > don't know how) and then get the output html to analyze/modify/etc...
> > and then sending the response from my Rack app?
>
> There's rack-legacy: git://github.com/eric1234/rack-legacy
>
> unicorn still has a Unicorn::App::ExecCGI module I wrote
> before rack-legacy existed:
> http://bogomips.org/unicorn.git/tree/lib/unicorn/app/exec_cgi.rb
> (The cgit instance on bogomips.org still runs off ExecCGI).
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* Re: Making a CGI request to a program (fossil-scm) from Rack (Sinatra)
2012-02-20 1:37 Making a CGI request to a program (fossil-scm) from Rack (Sinatra) Guillermo Estrada
` (2 preceding siblings ...)
2012-02-20 19:29 ` Eric Wong
@ 2012-02-20 21:08 ` James Tucker
3 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: James Tucker @ 2012-02-20 21:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: rack-devel
rackup(1) that ships with rack can support cgi.
#!/usr/bin/env rackup
run Rack::Lobster
On Feb 19, 2012, at 5:37 PM, Guillermo Estrada wrote:
> Hi, I just hope this is the place where I'll find the answer.
>
> Fossil-Scm is a Source Code Management System that has a built in web
> server for tracking issues and a wiki and such. It supports CGI also
> to avoid running long term processes while hosting multiple repos. The
> documentation suggests creating a simple CGI script like this one for
> each repo you would like to host:
>
> #!/usr/bin/fossil
> repository: /route/to/repo/name.fossil
>
> And this is all fine and works wonders in my web hosting.
>
> What I want to do is to create a Sinatra (Rack) app to manage those
> repositories, user authentication, common operations, create, delete,
> etc... But in order to do that, I want to be able to manipulate the
> route and the output of those webpages called via CGI.
>
> Is there a way to take a request from my Rack application, take some
> parameters, send them to the program (fossil) as a CGI request (This I
> don't know how) and then get the output html to analyze/modify/etc...
> and then sending the response from my Rack app?
>
> Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
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