Ruby on Rails

On Jun 27, 2015, at 3:50 PM, Marco Dias <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> I have a small PHP service that is being called in a JavaScript file by
> AJAX :
>
> $.ajax({
> type: "GET",
> url: "getDate.php",
> dataType:"json",
> data :{
> fromDate:fromDate,
> toDate:toDate
> },
> success: function(data) {
> ......
> }
> });
>
> This service contains :
>
>
> $fromDate = $_GET['fromDate'];
> $toDate = $_GET['toDate'];
> $fromDate=date_create($fromDate);
> $fromdate =
> date_format($fromDate,"Y-m-d")."T".date_format($fromDate,"H:i:s")."Z";
> $fromdate = urlencode($fromdate);
> $toDate=date_create($toDate);
> $todate = date_format($toDate,"Y-m-d")."T23:00:00Z";
> $todate = urlencode($todate);
> $url =
> "http://194.209.53.19:8086/query?db=Bellevue&q=select+*+from+measures+where+time%3E%3D%27".$fromdate."%27+and+time%3C%3D%27".$todate."%27";
> $data = file_get_contents($url, false);
> echo $data;
>
> I need to use this in my Rails application. I was wondering if I could
> put the .php file in a Rails folder, and simply call it. Or if there's a
> way to do a similar service in Rails? And how do I write these 11 lines
> in Rails ? I'm pretty new to Rails.

You'll have to configure a separate handler for it, in the Apache configuration (or whatever Web server you use). Rails runs Ruby natively, and the Rails router has no interest in or knowledge of PHP. It will happily serve any *static* files that you place in the app/public folder.

Walter

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