From: Paul Brannan <paul@...>
Date: 2002-02-20T00:33:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for web development

On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 12:38:11PM +0900, Billy wrote:
> Windows (Ruby + Eruby or similar)/(Apache + stable mod_ruby)
> installer.
> - No half working eruby (i havn't been able to get eruby to work on my
> windows box yet)

If eruby doesn't work for you, then perhaps (as someone else pointed
out) erb might.

> - mod_ruby for windows! a stable mod_ruby... I read somewhere it leaks
> memory every use and that it can't be fixed cause way ruby is built.
> Say goodbye to possibility of using eruby in production environment!

I think it could be fixed, but it would not be easy.  The biggest
problem is that there are a fixed number of Ruby interpreters in memory,
and requests are shared between those interpreters.  A script that does
something like change the definition of the + operator for integers
could conceivably wreak havoc on other mod_ruby scripts.

As an alternative, consider using fastcgi with erb or eruby.  I don't
know much about it, but it looks like a much better solution than
mod_ruby.

Paul