[Rails] Application hash?

[Jarkko Laine]

Steve,

On 7.4.2005, at 08:10, Steve V wrote:

>> Any class level hash will do.  Just bear in mind that if you run more
>> than one process, you'll need to use memcached or drb or something.
>
> Something like $application = Hash.new() in environment.rb you mean?

I think he means that the hash is stored as a class variable:

class Someklass < AR::Base

   @@myhash = Hash.new

end

>
> I'm a little confused though about the multi-process issue. Are you 
> saying
> that if I'm running mod_ruby or FCGI, that the $application variable 
> would
> be shared amongst each site that I have running this application?

The issue is rather that if you run multiple fcgi processes (for a 
single site), they won't share the value of that hash unless you use 
some external storage for it.

//jarkko


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