From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-02-11T01:34:51+09:00
Subject: one lonely fcgi user



ruby'ists-

any of you out there using fcgi.{so,rb} ?  i'm liking the speed, but several
issues remain which i have not, as of yet, groked :

  * accessing parameters!
  * doing a file upload via fcgi
  * running from the command line for testing
  * testing period (Web::Unit perhaps...)
  * best methodology for shutting down/reloading script, there seems to be too
    many ways to put apache into a bad state using fcgi's
  * memory management - how to return memory to the system? x = nil?

overall, this approach to web development seems simpler, faster, and safer
than just about any other approach while providing for scalability and
distributed web systems.  however, it seems like there are still some small
issues to deal with to make this a really viable (read easy to use/develop)
solution).  does anyone else have experiences they'd like to share?  pointers?
any interest in improving the interface somewhat?

-a

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