From: Robert Wagner <rw@...>
Date: 2003-03-21T05:48:11+09:00
Subject: Re: eRuby/mod_ruby hosting proposal

At 05:39 21.03.03 +0900, you wrote:
>On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 06:14:53 -0800, George Jempty wrote:
>
> > I successfully installed mod_ruby on a virtual private server free
> > trial yesterday, and I'm wondering....
> >
> > Would there be any interest in "nonProfit" eRuby/mod_ruby webHosting?
> > I can get 2 Gig storage and 100 Gig transfer for $40/month.  I figure
> > this could support a couple dozen accounts at 50MB storage and 3 Gig
> > transfer, your domain or my subdomain, at a charge of $5 per quarter,
> > just to cover expenses.
>
>I think this would be a great service.  I'm curious as to how you'd handle
>the needs for web server restarts ... especially when this sounds like
>it would be more of a developmental server.  I've found that, when developing
>applications, I have to restart the web server more often when creating
>mod_ruby apps than I have with others (mod_python, php).
>
>Good luck!
>--frank

i'm also very interested how to deal with those problems:

[mod_ruby faq]

Why are changes to my library not reflected in the server?
mod_ruby scripts share the Ruby interpreter. So a library is loaded once, 
require does not load the library later.
Please restart Apache like this:

# apachectl restart
Or use load instead of require for debugging.

apachectl restart causes memory leaks.

Currently, Ruby API does not provide a way to free memory that has been 
allocated by the interpreter. So mod_ruby can't free memory on apachectl 
graceful.
Please stop and start Apache for the time being.

# apachectl restart

--robert