From: Thomas Fini Hansen <beast@...>
Date: 2004-09-16T02:38:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Setting up my website - mod_ruby and Apache V2 - Naive questions.

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 01:14:54AM +0900, Andreas Schwarz wrote:
> Victor Reyes wrote:
> >Apache Version 2.x
> 
> >How do I use the mod_ruby that manhy people discuss? I know that the
> >mod_ruby name goes in the httpd.conf file, but how is it used?
> 
> I don't think that mod_ruby works with Apache 2.x (-> threading). I 

Well, considering that 1.2.2 fixes a SEGV bug on Apache2 with threads,
I'd say it does work. How mature it is, is another question though. I
wouldn't know, so far I've only tried it using the prefork model.

> would use fastcgi. It seems to be faster, and the ruby interpreter is 
> completely independent of the web server process. This has many 
> advantages: the Apache processes need less memory, a crashing ruby 
> interpreter can't kill a web server process, you don't introduce any 
> memory leaks from Ruby/mod_ruby into Apache, and you can run the 
> interpreters under different users for more security.

This is good arguments, though. But it is a different approach if you
come from the PHP world. 

By chance, nobody has made a .rhtml handler in FCGI, to ease
transitions? Or am I just too tired to think strait right now?

-- 
Thomas
beast@system-tnt.dk