From: Todd Gillespie <toddg@...128.ma.utexas.edu>
Date: 2001-12-11T03:40:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28124] Re: Tomcat for Ruby was App server for Ruby?

Neil Conway <nconway@klamath.dyndns.org> wrote:
: One of the things that concerns me with mod_ruby is the lack of support
: for Apache 2. In order to support Apache 2 properly (with threads),
: mod_perl is basically being rewritten. I know little about Ruby's
: internals, but this suggests to me that to port mod_ruby to Apache 2
: would require a non-trivial amount of work (if it's even possible). Is
: this accurate? What would be necessary to get mod_ruby running on Apache
: 2?

Presumably, the Ruby interpreter would need to be made thread-safe, so a
thread can say 'create a fresh interpreter' (or get one from a pool) and
not have any global conflicts.  Ruby is not at that point yet, as I have
found writing my ns_ruby project. 

I am not familiar with Apache2's threading model, but after fitting it
into the aolserver threading there hopefully won't be too much work left.