Rack-Legacy: A rack handler for serving legacy CGI and PHP scripts

Rack-Legacy: A rack handler for serving legacy CGI and PHP scripts

[Eric Anderson]

Wanted to post a note about bit of code I have written which assists
the development of apps that have some PHP/CGI code running alongside
Ruby code. It help avoid having to setup and configure Apache (or
whatever your preferred production stack is) just to do development on
a mixed code app. It basically a simple handler that execs the CGI and
puts the results back through rack. In the case of PHP it uses the php-
cgi to do the dirty work.

I have put some basic info and usage up at http://wiki.github.com/eric1234/rack-legacy/.
I welcome others to give a try. It should work under any Rack-
compatible environment although I had to do some adjustments to get it
to work under Rails 2.3.5 (Rails 3.x beta is untested).

This is my first rack module so I welcome feedback. Hope it is as
useful for others as it has been for me.

Eric

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Re: Rack-Legacy: A rack handler for serving legacy CGI and PHP scripts

[Ross Fairbanks]

Thanks Eric, this is really useful just giving it a try now.  The only
minor install issue I found is on Ubuntu you need to make sure you
install PHP from the php5-cgi package rather than the php5 package (as
it doesn't include the CGI handler).

Ross


On Mar 26, 1:30 am, Eric Anderson <e...@pixelwareinc.com> wrote:
> Wanted to post a note about bit of code I have written which assists
> the development of apps that have some PHP/CGI code running alongside
> Ruby code. It help avoid having to setup and configure Apache (or
> whatever your preferred production stack is) just to do development on
> a mixed code app. It basically a simple handler that execs the CGI and
> puts the results back through rack. In the case of PHP it uses the php-
> cgi to do the dirty work.
>
> I have put some basic info and usage up athttp://wiki.github.com/eric1234/rack-legacy/.
> I welcome others to give a try. It should work under any Rack-
> compatible environment although I had to do some adjustments to get it
> to work under Rails 2.3.5 (Rails 3.x beta is untested).
>
> This is my first rack module so I welcome feedback. Hope it is as
> useful for others as it has been for me.
>
> Eric

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Re: Rack-Legacy: A rack handler for serving legacy CGI and PHP scripts

[Mat Schaffer]

Thanks! I'll have to give the CGI wrapper a try in place of the one I
wrote awhile back (http://bit.ly/dnmApk). Looks like yours might win.
-Mat

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Ross Fairbanks
<ross.fairbanks@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Eric, this is really useful just giving it a try now.  The only
> minor install issue I found is on Ubuntu you need to make sure you
> install PHP from the php5-cgi package rather than the php5 package (as
> it doesn't include the CGI handler).
>
> Ross
>
>
> On Mar 26, 1:30 am, Eric Anderson <e...@pixelwareinc.com> wrote:
>> Wanted to post a note about bit of code I have written which assists
>> the development of apps that have some PHP/CGI code running alongside
>> Ruby code. It help avoid having to setup and configure Apache (or
>> whatever your preferred production stack is) just to do development on
>> a mixed code app. It basically a simple handler that execs the CGI and
>> puts the results back through rack. In the case of PHP it uses the php-
>> cgi to do the dirty work.
>>
>> I have put some basic info and usage up athttp://wiki.github.com/eric1234/rack-legacy/.
>> I welcome others to give a try. It should work under any Rack-
>> compatible environment although I had to do some adjustments to get it
>> to work under Rails 2.3.5 (Rails 3.x beta is untested).
>>
>> This is my first rack module so I welcome feedback. Hope it is as
>> useful for others as it has been for me.
>>
>> Eric
>
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