From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2005-03-31T08:31:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Poor efficency of Ruby...

From: "JZ" <spamerom@niet.com>
> Dnia Thu, 31 Mar 2005 05:44:25 +0900, Joao Pedrosa napisa�(a):
>
> >> The basic philosophy of CGI is to execute for every request interpreter of
> >> (Ruby/PHP/Perl/Python whatever) and its scripts (or binary compiled
> >> application) all over again. This is the reason CGI is slow. But here I am
> >> connecting to Rails server through Apache. CGI is  only a protocol as you
> >> wrote. It should be fast, because CGI is only an adapter (if I understand
> >> it correctly) Where am I wrong?
> >
> > Do you know about FastCGI?
>
> Yes, I know. But what about my question? Where am I wrong? Even classic cgi
> script working as a simple adapter between Apache and application server
> can be very fast.

How does it perform without Apache involved?  Can you run the program directly
from the command line?  ruby my_cgi_adaptor_script.rb  .... ?

If it's still slow, maybe it will be easier to find where the time is going by
eliminating Apache entirely for debugging purposes.

Just a thought,

Regards,

Bill