Getting Started with eRuby
Set Up Your cgi-bin Folder
You need to add an 'eruby' script to your '~/public_html/cgi-bin' folder. Here's what it should look like:
#!/bin/bash echo "Content-type: text/html" echo echo "<!DOCTYPE HTML>" erubis -E Stdout <$DOCUMENT_ROOT$REQUEST_URI
Save the above file as '~/public_html/cgi-bin/eruby' and change its permissions to be executable.
Set Up Your .htaccess File
Finally, you'll need to create an .htaccess file in your '~/public_html/' folder and add the following three lines:
Action eruby-script /cgi-bin/eruby AddHandler eruby-script .rhtml DirectoryIndex index.html index.rhtml
This will cause any *.rhtml files to load the eRuby script that we just set up, and that file will send the 'rhtml' file through the eRuby parser before displaying it to the user.
Set Up a Rewrite Rule
*This is an optional step.
If you don't like having a 'rhtml' hanging off the end of your URLs, you can add this to the .htaccess file as well:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)(?<!\.rhtml)$ $1.rhtml [L]
Now you can upload files ending in '.rhtml' that contain Ruby code enclosed in <% %> or <%= %> markers and have the contents run as Ruby:
<html> <body> 1 and 2 is <% puts 1 + 2 %> </body> </html>
If you are receiving a 404 (not found) error after setting this up you may need cgi privileges enabled on your account. You can open a support ticket and we will be happy to enable this for you.