From: domingo@... (Domingo Alvarez Duarte)
Date: 2001-07-24T18:09:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18418] Re: mod_ruby - persistent variables?

Shugo Maeda <shugo@ruby-lang.org> wrote in message news:<87u202on1y.wl@studly.priv.netlab.jp>...
> Hi,
> 
> At Mon, 23 Jul 2001 22:48:51 +0900,
> Michael Neumann <uu9r@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
> > Is it possible to share variables over multiple request, as this
> > is possible with FastCGI.
> > I think it isn't legally but maybe I am wrong.
> > What happens with global variables? Are they removed after
> > each running script?
> 
> You can't share variables because Apache creates multiple
> processes.
> So it is not a good idea to use global variables on mod_ruby.
> 
> Shugo

Why not try use the apache shared memory module, I'm looking for that
kind of functionality too.