From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2003-01-26T01:08:03+09:00
Subject: Re: mod_ruby: what's persistent and what's shared?

> > On Thursday 23 January 2003 05:05 pm, ahoward wrote:
> > > that approach also makes me queasy... why not simple make a little drb
> > > conection pool?  that'd be pretty trival to implement and neatly solves
> > > the problem externally to the web server and individual cgi scripts?

by the way, this queasy solution works fairly well as long as you have a 
backup for when you loose the proccess (for a new one), thus i was able to 
persist a database connection and a few other things with difficulty and my 
sped up multiple times.

> > > i've actually be working on a CGI::Cache for such purposes... it would
> > > be just like a session but able so contain 'live' objects, like
> > > database handles.

it runs as a seperate service (using DRb)?

> i sure hope so, otherwise my 'production' is doomed! ;-)  seriouly though,
> i figure DRb is so small that any problem can be tackled with a post to
> this list, now take CORBA....

true true.

i wonder then. if i use DRb would i then also be able to make my app easily 
run on a distributed enviornment? i.e. a cluster?

-- 
tom sawyer, aka transami
transami@transami.net