From: Sean Chittenden <sean@...>
Date: 2002-04-07T05:09:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Switching from PHP to Ruby - Comments Please

> You didn't ask this, but if you use mod_ruby, then you will have to
> take into account that the interpreter cannot be
> re-initialized. This means scripts will affect each other.  For
> example, if one script does a "require", then it will be available
> to all future scripts including those not expecting it. This has
> already bitten someone doing web work with ruby, so beware.

That's the same problem that all mod_*'s have running under Apache.
PHP doesn't because it has an aggressive (read: complete) cleanup
routine, which would be the way to solve this for mod_ruby.  The only
thing that isn't currently cleaned up are modules, which is done for
performance reasons.  Because Apache runs as the same UID/GID for all
users, it seems silly to unload modules, IMHO.

> Also, mod_ruby is still considered unstable.  You may not notice
> this for simple cases, though.

I have over 1M unique IP's per day that would disagree with you on
this.  ::smile:: I talked w/ Shugo about this a few days ago and
mod_ruby is only one release away from 1.0.  I think it's been a rock
for quite some time.  -sc

-- 
Sean Chittenden