From: Brian Candler Date: 2003-02-20T00:07:38+09:00 Subject: Re: speedycgi/pperl equivalent? On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 04:31:33AM +0900, David Garamond wrote: > Is there an equivalent of SpeedyCGI or PPerl for Ruby? > > http://daemoninc.com/SpeedyCGI/ (a.k.a. PersistentPerl) > http://search.cpan.org/dist/PPerl/PPerl.pm Interesting. If the embedded interpreter restarts the CGI script for each invocation, does that mean it loses global variables, so you couldn't keep a persistent connection to a database for example? Or is that state carried forward between invocations? (In which case why not just use mod_perl?) Regards, Brian.