From: vor_lord@...
Date: 2003-03-12T13:53:13+09:00
Subject: Re: mod_ruby / eruby:  intermittent failure to load file

"Tim Bates" <tim@bates.id.au> wrote in message
news:200303071432.31225.tim@bates.id.au...

[snip]

> What is happening here is, one of your child processes is using and old
> version of FormHelper (presumably) which doesn't contain the create_submit
> method. When this particular child process answers your request, it fails.
> Any other time, it works.
>
> To force mod_ruby to reload the scripts, either restart Apache and/or use
> 'load' instead of 'require' in your script. The latter option will add
some
> loading overhead (since you no longer have a hot cache) and so once you're
> sure FormHelper isn't going to change for a while, you can use 'require'
> again to get the benefits of that caching.

Problem solved.  Many thanks--dumb mistake by an apache newbie.  Now, with
eruby-debug turned on things are going just great!

mod_ruby/eruby/REXML is just a joy to develop in.  Thanks to everyone who
works on any of these.  REXML has just completely spoiled me--I love the
API.

-- Brett Williams