From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-05-21T22:00:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Strange mod_ruby

On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 08:20:27PM +0900, Dominik Werder wrote:
> > 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?

As far as I understand, each worker process is independent and has its own
Ruby instance.

> 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?

I don't know if that's possible with mod_ruby. If you need that you could
use fastcgi instead (apache mod_fastcgi + ruby fcgi) where each
*application* has its own process or pool of processes.

Regards,

Brian.