Rails - Aug 2006 - Does Ruby / Rails have something similar to PHPs ''virtual''

Hi all

Is there a rails / ruby function that is analagous to PHPs
''virtual''
function?

"virtual() is an Apache-specific function which is similar to 
<!--#include virtual...--> in mod_include. It performs an Apache 
sub-request. It is useful for including CGI scripts or .shtml files, or 
anything else that you would parse through Apache. Note that for a CGI 
script, the script must generate valid CGI headers. At the minimum that 
means it must generate a Content-type header."

Details:

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.virtual.php


Andrew

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Hi there,
>From that page:
"This function is only supported when PHP is installed as an Apache
module."

Maybe mod_ruby has a similar function, but rails doesn''t support
mod_ruby.

Best Regards
Eaden McKee

On 8/2/06, Andrew Knott <aknott@mac.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Is there a rails / ruby function that is analagous to PHPs
''virtual''
> function?
>
> "virtual() is an Apache-specific function which is similar to
> <!--#include virtual...--> in mod_include. It performs an Apache
> sub-request. It is useful for including CGI scripts or .shtml files, or
> anything else that you would parse through Apache. Note that for a CGI
> script, the script must generate valid CGI headers. At the minimum that
> means it must generate a Content-type header."
>
> Details:
>
> http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.virtual.php
>
>
> Andrew
>
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Andrew Knott wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Is there a rails / ruby function that is analagous to PHPs
''virtual''
> function?
> 
> "virtual() is an Apache-specific function which is similar to 
> <!--#include virtual...--> in mod_include. It performs an Apache 
> sub-request. It is useful for including CGI scripts or .shtml files, or 
> anything else that you would parse through Apache. Note that for a CGI 
> script, the script must generate valid CGI headers. At the minimum that 
> means it must generate a Content-type header."
> 
> Details:
> 
> http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.virtual.php
> 
> 
> Andrew
Rails doesn''t have a facility to communicate directly with apache like 
that, however it is very easy to download some html from a url:

  include ''open-uri''
  data      = open(''http://yahoo.com'')
  more_data = open(''http://localhost/cgi/somescript.cgi'')

Check out more here: 
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/open-uri/rdoc/

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That should have been:

  include ''open-uri''
  data      = open(''http://yahoo.com'').read
  more_data = open(''http://localhost/cgi/somescript.cgi'').read

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