From: Jonas Hartmann <Mail@...>
Date: 2005-06-24T22:25:06+09:00
Subject: FastCGI: handling the caching of ruby scripts.

FastCGIs idea of caching scripts on first startup is a great thing but:

- Sometimes you need to reload scripts
- If you are developing, reloading scripts that have been modified is
   needed.

My idea was to support two ways of reloading.
1.) A GET/POST variable from HTTP can force the script to stops its 
FCGI process and launches itself again after that.

2.) The script has to detect if the user-agent send an force-refresh. 
(Shift+Reload in Firefox for example). If that is the case, the script 
stops its FCGI process and launches itself again after that. This 
behaviour can be disabled by a global variable.

I do not have any idea how to make neither 1.) nor 2.) work. How do I 
detect if the user-agent send an force-reload/cache-ignore?

I cannot make the last example on this Page:
http://rubygarden.org/ruby/ruby?FCGIRubyWhyArentMyChangesDisplayed 
working yet...

Any hints, tipps, suggestions?

--
Jonas