From: vor_lord@...
Date: 2003-03-07T12:54:59+09:00
Subject: mod_ruby / eruby:  intermittent failure to load file

I am having a problem using mod_ruby and eruby.  I just installed the latest
stable tarballs of each on a Red Hat Linux 8.0 machine, and everything
seemed to be working just fine.  In combination with REXML this really seems
to be the ticket for a simple web app I need.

However, now I'm having an intermittent problem.  The .rhtml file I am
testing intermittently results in errors such as:
/tmp/Viewer.rhtml.10484.0:79: undefined method `create_submit' for
#<Object:0x40f3c338> (NoMethodError)
    from /opt/ictools/ruby/lib/ruby/1.7/apache/eruby-run.rb:113:in `load'
    from /opt/ictools/ruby/lib/ruby/1.7/apache/eruby-run.rb:113:in `run'
    from /opt/ictools/ruby/lib/ruby/1.7/apache/eruby-run.rb:78:in `handler'
    from ruby:0

I must admit I am a complete newbie at CGI and Apache in general (although
not Ruby).  I could be doing something incredibly stupid.  I'm still
basically at the playing around stage.

These are the relevant pieces of the code:

..... html header stuff
<%
require 'cgi'
require 'FormHelper' # a little helper class to generate some common forms
etc I need
include FormHelper

# some CGI and form stuff here
create_submit('blah', 'blah')
%>
...... html footer stuff

Because this error only happens about 1 out of 5 times I am completely
baffled.  I've configured the browser to not use a cache at all (to try and
eliminate caching effects) yet it still fails in this manner.

I've never had Ruby 'sometimes' complain about not being able to find a
method.  Style aside, what is wrong with the use of include above?

Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Brett Williams