Preparation and Installation
Before we get going with Ruby and CGI, we’ve got to do a little work to get our webserver ready. For the purposes of this chapter, I’ll be focusing on getting CGI working for the Apache webserver running on a Unix-like environment. Apache is the most popular webserver, and Unix-like operating systems are the most common (and most stable) server operating systems.
You can get a copy of the Apache webserver at http://httpd.apache.org, or you can use a package manager to install it. (Mac OS X comes with Apache pre-installed.) I used apt-get on my Ubuntu system, as follows:
apt-get install apache2 apache2-doc Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: apache2-common ...
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