Question

I have a small ruby application that I made on my local machine. It uses a text file insted of a database. It’s a simple app that takes in a word, processes it against the text file, and then outputs the results using puts.

I would like to fit it into a RoR framework, hosted on my personal machine. I have run through some lessons and tutorials in a few books and online materials I have, but they all involve databases.

I read thru the notes in config/environment.rb and found at line 19 instructions to uncomment the line that removes ActiveRecord.

I am currently looking for the appropriate directories to put the text file itself, and the code from the ruby app that reads this text file. Thank you.

Answer 1

You probably want to do something like the following:

• Have a controller that takes the word as a parameter.
• Turn you app into a function that takes the word as a parameter and returns the results (instead of doing puts)

• Call the function from your controller and render the results (e.g. something like:

  render :text => my_func(word)