From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2003-09-10T00:03:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Memory consumption of Ruby/mod_ruby combo on Apache

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 10:50, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
> > Also, what other modules are you loading?  Are there some that you can
> > remove?
> 
> That's what I'm trying to do now. I moved the <IfModule mod_ruby.c> 
> into the only vhost that uses Ruby, but then it slams me with:
> 
> mod_ruby: error in ruby
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/apache/ruby-run.rb:70:in `load': 
> loading from unsafe file /var/www/misto/app/controllers/login.rbx 
> (SecurityError)
>          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/apache/ruby-run.rb:70:in 
> `handler'
> 
> Another thing. Is Apache smart about which processes that deals with 
> which vhosts? Like, if I specify that mod_ruby is only to run within a 
> certain vhost will some of the Apache processes be assigned to deal 
> with that vhost (and hence load the interpreter) while others "go free"?

I don't think so - I think all the modules are loaded when Apache is
started, and each child process will have everything in the parent
process.  In fact, when I put a LoadModule directive inside a
VirtualHost section, apachectl configtest reported an error.

Yours,

Tom