Ruby in HTML like PHP

Question

What would be the closest thing to having Ruby in HTML like for PHP with <?php ?> tags?

Can it be done without the need of frameworks that impose website structure or without the need to run Ruby servers, ecc... ?

Is there a way?

Answer 1

rack-server-pages

Rack middleware and application for serving dynamic pages in very simple way. There are no controllers or models, just only views like a jsp, asp and php!

https://github.com/migrs/rack-server-pages

https://stackoverflow.com/a/32938202/988591

You can run it with "rackup" or any app server supporting rack. For example with passenger you just need to go to the folder where config.ru is and run "passenger start".

Answer 2

You're looking for erb files.

Open a test.erb file and write this down:

<h1><%= "hello" %></h1>

then run it with:

ruby -rerb -e 'puts ERB.new(File.read("test.erb")).result'

To run erb within a webser you need to wrap it somehow.

Here is a gem that does the job:

Serve - A Rapid Prototyping Framework for Web Applications

gem install serve

And then run it on the directory where your scripts are:

serve

The standard address is localhost:4000