CGIAlt 1.0.0 released - re-implementation of cgi.rb
I have released CGIAlt 1.0.0.
- (homepage) http://cgialt.rubyforge.org/
- (download) http://rubyforge.org/projects/cgialt/
- (source) http://github.com/kwatch/cgialt/
CGIAlt is a re-implementation of ‘cgi.rb’.
Features
- Compatible with ‘cgi.rb’ and CGI class
- Faster than ‘cgi.rb’
- Available with CGIExt (which is an implementation of cgi.rb in C extension)
- FastCGI support
- Ruby 1.9 support
Install
$ tar xzf cgialt-1.0.0.tar.gz
$ cd cgialt-1.0.0
$ sudo ruby setup.rb
or
$ sudo gem install cgialt
Usage
If you want to use CGIAlt instead of ‘cgi.rb’:
require 'cgialt'
If you want to load ‘cgi.rb’ when CGIAlt is not installed:
begin
require 'cgialt'
rescue LoadError
require 'cgi'
end
If you want replace ‘cgi.rb’ with CGIAlt, create new ‘cgi.rb’:
$ cd /usr/local/lib/ruby1.8/site_ruby
$ sudo echo "require 'cgialt'" > cgi.rb
Enhancements from 0.0.2
- Ruby 1.9 support
- Add tests for ‘cgialt/util.rb’.
Changges from 0.0.2
- CGI class now uses CGI#env_table() instead of using $CGI_ENV directly.
- CGI class now uses CGI#stdinput() and CGI#stdoutput() instead of using $stdin and $stdout directly.
- Refactor ‘cgialt/fcgi/core.rb’.
Bugfixes from 0.0.2
- CGI.parse() supports to parse ‘a=10&b’ (no ‘=’).
- CGI.parse() returned NoMethodError when QUERY_STRING was “&=10″. Now fixed.
- CGI.unescapeHTML() couldn’t convert “ ”. Now fixed.
- Typo fixed in CGI::Cookie.parse().
- Move RFC822_DAYS and RFC822_MONTHS from ‘cgi/core.rb’ to ‘cgi/util.rb’.