From: Matt Armstrong <matt@...>
Date: 2001-07-12T00:16:35+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17659] Re: Singleton and mod_ruby/eRuby

Jim Menard <jimm@fnord.io.com> writes:

> Folks,
> 
> I have a class that includes Singleton. This class is being use in a
> Web app. I use Apache, mod_ruby, and eRuby. I've noticed that the
> initialize method gets called more than once when I call
> Klass.instance() within a Web page to fetch the singleton
> instance. Not every time, but the third or fourth time I try to
> fetch the singleton.
> 
> This means that all the state I stored in the first instance is not
> available. Crash.
> 
> Is more than one interpreter started by mod_ruby?

There is one interpreter per apache process.