From: Jonas Hartmann <Mail@...>
Date: 2005-06-24T23:04:48+09:00
Subject: Re: FastCGI: handling the caching of ruby scripts.

Jonas Hartmann wrote:
> 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:

I have found a simple solution and updated this page:
> http://rubygarden.org/ruby/ruby?FCGIRubyWhyArentMyChangesDisplayed 
> working yet...
> 
> Any hints, tipps, suggestions?
> 
> -- 
> Jonas
> 
> 
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