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Ruby CGI TODO

Page created: 2022-10-03

My online "TODO" web service is four dozen lines of ungolfed Ruby CGI and a text file.

The todo.txt text file format looks like this:

x Water plants
  Write rest of novel
x Take picture of cat
x Brush teeth
  Buy some land somewhere

The 'x' at the beginning of the line means the item is done.

It renders like so:

Water plants
Write rest of novel
Take picture of cat
Brush teeth
Buy some land somehwere

When I click on one of the items, it toggles to done or undone (the first character of the text file line is toggled between ' ' and 'x'). The input at the bottom is for adding new lines.

#!/usr/bin/ruby

require 'cgi'
cgi = CGI.new

fname="todo.txt"

added_new_str = ""
if cgi.has_key?('new_item')
    File.open(fname, 'a') do |file|
        file.puts "  #{cgi['new_item']}" # note two spaces at beginning
    end
end

if cgi.has_key?('toggle')
    line = cgi['toggle'].to_i-1
    lines = File.readlines(fname)
    lines[line][0] = lines[line][0] == "x" ? " " : "x" # toggle!
    File.open(fname, 'w') { |f| f.write(lines.join) }
end

puts "Content-Type: text/html"
puts
puts '<html><head><title>TODO</title>
	<style>
	    body { line-height: 1.6; }
		a { text-decoration: none; color: #000; }
		a.done { text-decoration: line-through; color: #999; }
	</style>
</head><body><h1>TODO</h1>'

line_num=0
File.open(fname, 'r').each do |line|
	line_num += 1
	item = CGI.escapeHTML(line.chomp)
	done = (item[0] == 'x' ? 'done' : '')
	item = item[2..-1]
	puts "<a class=\"#{done}\" href=\"?toggle=#{line_num}\">#{item}</a><br>\n"
end

puts '<form><input type="text" name="new_item"><input type="submit"></form>
</body></html>'

Could you break this? Sure! Is it secure? HECK NO! That would probably take a problem at least ten times this size and would have felt like something I should be paid to write.

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