From: brabuhr@...
Date: 2010-01-22T03:06:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Newcomer

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Kefan Xie <xenolex@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just recently installed Ruby for the purpose of developing extensions
> for SpiceWorks. However, this is my first ever experience with Ruby
> since its update to its new form (last time touched was at least 3 years
> ago when there's no such thing as Webrick server).

Webrick has been around longer than 3 years, but I'm guessing this is
your first time with Rails.  (I'm assuming that SpiceWorks is still
Rails-based.)

You might want to try seeking more targeted guidance from the Rails list.

http://www.ruby-forum.com/forum/3

> What I had noticed was, when I start the Webrick server, if I generate
> a new controller, I would receive a routing error until I restart the
> Webrick server. So that means for every test of modification I would
> need to restart the Webrick server, is that true? If it is, it would seem
> to be very tedious. Thanks.

It sounds like you may be starting the server with the Rails
environment (RAILS_ENV) set to production rather than development.

http://bandwagonblog.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/rails-environments/
"Development Mode
config.cache_classes = false

Production Mode
config.cache_classes = true"

http://www.spacevatican.org/2008/12/28/when-cache_classes-gets-you-down
"if config.cache_classes is true (which it is in production) then all
of your models, controllers etc are loaded up as part of application
initialization"