From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2004-11-26T22:03:45+09:00
Subject: Re: rails is awesome

* David Heinemeier Hansson <david@loudthinking.com> [1139 10:39]:
> >But it's the same fundamental problem, how often you poll for code 
> >changes.
> >I remember Ara or Carl (on that rubygarden fastcgi page) had a trick 
> >that
> >let your fastcgi classes detect when their *.rb file had changed and 
> >reload
> >themselves, I'm assuming that might have benn involved here.
> 
> That would be auto-reload.rb.

Sorry, by mistake - I meant for  fastcgi not modruby, should have typed
'detect when their *.fcgi file had changed', see:

http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?FCGIRubyWhyArentMyChangesDisplayed

> 1) This doesn't work for removing methods.
> 2) Your model class definitions have to be idempotent 

That's a small price to pay, so long as the docs mention to restart
the webserver if things look screwy.

Thanks for the headsup.

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