From: Dominik Werder <dwerder@...>
Date: 2003-05-21T20:20:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Strange mod_ruby

>> thank you very much, this one got me really busy the last 2 days :)
>> is there a reason for this kind of design?
>
> The main reason is that mod_ruby has a single instance of the Ruby
> interpreter for *all* the scripts which are being run under it. If one

Does that mean that all apache processes use a single ruby interpreter or 
do they have an interpreter on theire own?

> script decides to define something in its top-level namespace, you don't
> want that thing to appear in the top-level namespace of all other scripts 
> -
> it would couple them together too closely, causing hard-to-find bugs.

what should I do if I want to change the behavior of Fixnum in one project 
but doesn't want to disturb the other project?

thanks!
Dominik