Question

I need to

• run ant remotelly
• create/modify xml files for ant
• pass back results from ant’s execution

so I thought I am going to write a web/application server in ruby. But I do not know where to start.

The computer that will run ant is Win XP SP3 and there is no web server or anything else running.

I found this code but not sure which part to modify so I does what I want. Let’s say I want to run “dir” command and send back to the browser result of that command.

require 'socket'
webserver = TCPServer.new('127.0.0.1', 7125)
while (session = webserver.accept)
   session.print "HTTP/1.1 200/OK\r\nContent-type:text/html\r\n\r\n"
   request = session.gets
   trimmedrequest = request.gsub(/GET\ \//, '').gsub(/\ HTTP.*/, '')
   filename = trimmedrequest.chomp
   if filename == ""
      filename = "index.html"
   end
   begin
      displayfile = File.open(filename, 'r')
      content = displayfile.read()
      session.print content
   rescue Errno::ENOENT
   session.print "File not found"
   end
   session.close
end

Answer 1

Ruby includes a Web server (WEBrick) so you don’t actually need to use the code that you posted. Sinatra is designed specifically for writing very small Web applications – it lets you write a Web application in a few lines of code and automatically uses the provided Web server.