From: Kirk Haines <khaines@...>
Date: 2006-05-04T06:21:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Sharp knives and glue

On Wednesday 03 May 2006 2:53 pm, David Pollak wrote:

> The reason that Instiki doesn't work under FastCGI because the class load
> sequence running under FastCGI is a different sequence than the class
> loading sequence under  WEBrick.  Because the classes are loaded in a
> different order, some of the metaprogramming stuff that's happening done
> "wrong" and thus Instiki doesn't work.  If a pretty uncomplex system
> (Instiki is not very complex) is so very fragile and subject to problems
> because of the order classes are loaded into the environment, this problem
> will just get worse in complex systems.

You keep using this an an example of a Ruby problem.  It's not a Ruby problem.  
It's not a language problem.  It's an application problem, an Instiki 
problem.

In this case, Instiki needs to be fixed, not Ruby.


Kirk Haines