RubyInitHandler Problems

Hi:

I am very new to mod_ruby and am clearly not understanding how to use the
RubyInitHandler directive. What I am trying to do is to call a method
'load_data' to read in a (large) data file, and have set this in the
httpd.conf file:

===
RubyRequire apache/ruby-run
RubyRequire foo/bar

<Files *.rbx>
  SetHandler ruby-object
  RubyInitHandler Foo::Bar.load_data
  RubyHandler Apache::RubyRun.instance
</Files>
===

I've even copied the Foo module into the standard library at
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8 out of desperation. But I just get the following in
the error log:

===
[Tue Jul 27 09:58:09 2004] [error] mod_ruby: error in ruby
(eval): (eval)undefined method `load_data' for Foo::Bar:Class
(NoMethodError)
        from (eval):0:in `value'
===

For some reason I can't even seem to see the method which is in the file
'foo/bar' as

===
module Foo

  class Bar

    def load_data

    ...

    end

  end

end
===
  
Any pointers would be helpful to allow me to accomplish this initialization
task.

Thanks,

Tony


Tony Hammond

New Technology, Nature Publishing Group
4 Crinan Street, London N1 9XW, UK 

tel:+44-20-7843-4659
mailto:[email protected]




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