From: Joshua Ballanco <jballanc@...>
Date: 2008-08-19T10:09:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Mapping file-not-found to a .rb file?

Marc Heiler wrote:
> Would this require
> mod_rewrite or are there simpler alternatives? Preferrable I would not
> want to run a daemon .rb file.

You could just make a Ruby cgi script. Then, yes, some mod_rewrite 
trickery should get you the desired results.

However, you might want to reconsider running a daemon .rb file. The 
main reason that Rails/Rack/etc. go this route is that starting a Ruby 
process is often the most intensive part of running a Ruby script 
(doubly-so in the case of JRuby). Having a Ruby process idling and 
waiting for requests is often more efficient.
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