On Apr 15, 2013, at 8:10 AM, Wins Lin wrote: > tamouse mailing lists wrote in post #1105626: >> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 6:31 PM, tamouse mailing lists >> <tamouse.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Never mind, I mis-read what you wrote. >> >> ZF I'm assuming is Zend Framework, aka, PHP? Which works nothing like >> Rails, btw, as you are essentially restarting the entire application >> with every request in PHP. > > Yes, I meant Zend Framework. > >> The Rails application is not brought up and shut down for every >> request. It lives in a long running process. > > But how it can be? HTTP is a stateless protocol.
Right, but Rails implements a full application server within its long-running process, and maintains a session cookie to track individual users across multiple request loops. PHP is just beginning to be able to do this sort of thing, I think. Isn't there a server in the latest beta or alpha? Walter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
