Showing posts with label windows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label windows. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
How to run Ruby CGI scripts in Windows 7 with XAMPP
I use Ubuntu to develop my apps, but sometimes I need to run scripts in windows.
In a computer with Windows 7, I've installed Ruby and XAMPP. It runs PHP script very well, but when I tried to run a Ruby CGI script, I got the error:
It's due to the "shebang" first line of the script:
In my local installation, ruby is in:
That's not much different from the linux path. I solved the problem by creating a symbolic link usr pointing to ruby at root directory. To do that, run cmd as Administrator and type:
That was enough to run my scripts. :)
In a computer with Windows 7, I've installed Ruby and XAMPP. It runs PHP script very well, but when I tried to run a Ruby CGI script, I got the error:
Couldn't create child process: 720002
It's due to the "shebang" first line of the script:
#!/usr/bin/ruby
In my local installation, ruby is in:
C:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe
That's not much different from the linux path. I solved the problem by creating a symbolic link usr pointing to ruby at root directory. To do that, run cmd as Administrator and type:
c: cd \ mklink /D usr ruby
That was enough to run my scripts. :)
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