On Sep 21, 11:08 am, Abder-Rahman Ali <[email protected]> wrote: > In the "Rails Way" book, the following was written in the console: > > ENV[ ‘REQUEST_URI’ ] = “/demo/index” > > I searched for a place to describe what ENV[ ‘REQUEST_URI’ ] means but > didn't find. > > I know it is clear here. But, I want to know: Is ENV and 'REQUEST_URI'] > predefined? In other words, do they act like methods I just reference > to?
ENV is the hash of environment variables (it's not quite a hash if my memory is correct). When using CGI web servers tell the application about the request by setting a bunch of environment variables. Fred > > Thanks. > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
