From: Chris <chris@...>
Date: 2002-04-10T10:30:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Switching from PHP to Ruby - Comments Please

In article <20020407125157.B53234@ninja1.internal>,
 Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> wrote:

> > > > 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

Ah.  My experience is with shared servers, where the admins frown on 
installing mod_anything without it being very well tested(by them).