From: Sean Chittenden <sean@...>
Date: 2002-04-08T04:52:09+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. Also, mod_ruby is still considered unstable.  You may
> > > not notice this for simple cases, though.
> > 
> > is the behavior the same when i use eRuby ?
> 
> No.  eRuby is just embedded Ruby.  It doesn't interact with Apache as 
> anything other than a normal CGI process.

Actually, yes.  If you are using eRuby under mod_ruby (it's a good
thing(TM)), then you have the same speedup/behavior that you do under
mod_ruby.  If you're using #!/usr/local/bin/eruby on your shebang line
and have set your eRuby scripts to be CGI scripts, then disregard what
I said, however I wager that most people are using eRuby with
mod_ruby.  -sc

-- 
Sean Chittenden