From: Kent Dahl <kentda@...>
Date: 2003-01-23T16:23:28+09:00
Subject: Re: mod_ruby: what's persistent and what's shared?

Tom Sawyer wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday 22 January 2003 06:46 pm, Paul DuBois wrote:
> > The Apache parent process may spawn a number of children.  Suppose the
> > request from USER1 is serviced by child A.  If the request from USER2
> > is also serviced by child A, then it'll be getting the same mod_ruby.
> > If it's serviced by a different child, all bets are off.
> >
> > Moral: You can't rely on the behavior that you appear to want to rely on.
> 
> thanks you very much. i understand now. since i did not know for sure i have
> been coding as if this were the case. so all is well.

<plug>
If you want to be able to rely on globally set variables to be shared
and such, you really want a single Ruby app at the recieving end. That
is, you want IOWA.
</plug>

(Or maybe its just me that wants IOWA very badly after a week of PHP
hacking :-/)

-- 
(\[ Kent Dahl ]/)_    _~_    __[ http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~kentda/ ]___/~
 ))\_student_/((  \__d L b__/  NTNU - graduate engineering - 5. year  )
( \__\_�|�_/__/ ) _)Industrial economics and technological management(
 \____/_�_\____/ (____engineering.discipline_=_Computer::Technology___)