From: Mat Schaffer <schapht@...>
Date: 2006-07-10T21:30:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Redefining core classes

On Jul 9, 2006, at 11:38 PM, Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:
> On Jul 8, 2006, at 8:30 PM, Jeff Pritchard wrote:
>
>> What if I'm running two rails apps on the same (apache) server?
>> Couldn't changes to core classes made by one of these apps effect the
>> other one?
>>
>> Or does each instance of "ruby someAppOrOther.rb" start up a new
>> interpreter in memory?
>>
>> thanks,
>> jp
>
> Jeff-
>
> 	Yeah each ruby foo.rb starts a new interpreter in memory and  
> opening classes will only affect that instance of the interpreter.  
> Your two rails apps won't step on each other.
>
> -Ezra

Ezra might know more than I do on this subject, but I remember  
hearing that mod_ruby needed a special version of dispatch.rb to  
avoid rails apps conflicting.  All the other deployment methods just  
work though.  In short, make sure to read the docs and you'll be fine.
-Mat