CGI anomaly associated with access to a Rails Active Record outside of rails

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So, I'm not sure I will have the energy to do other than just mention this with barely specific details, and I already understand that this kind of thing is expected to be a little ticklish at this time, but...

1. I'm using a non-mod_ruby application for internal services which also accesses data from a Rails app through a call to active_record, all of which mostly seems to work.

2. I tried, for organizational purposes, embedding the include .rb file that includes cgi for my app inside an include file which is inside another include file, which was one more such level lower than before. This caused the Query strings stuff to no longer be available to me in my $CGIo object I was making. I tried a number of variations, but the two common things that fixed it were either taking out the active record connection call, or moving the include file that instantiates $CGIo = cgi.new to at least one level less deep.

So, I guess I'm only including this for now for use by the devs and warning to the group. For all I know I'm the only one foolhardy enough to be doing this kind of thing at this time, but still, it may be interesting.

Best wishes.

Sincerely, Xeno
xc

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Xeno Campanoli wrote:
Followup on this, though instantiation / object variables initiated in the constructor failed at lower levels, a class variable from the base does fine all the time.

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So, I'm not sure I will have the energy to do other than just mention this with barely specific details, and I already understand that this kind of thing is expected to be a little ticklish at this time, but...

1. I'm using a non-mod_ruby application for internal services which also accesses data from a Rails app through a call to active_record, all of which mostly seems to work.

2. I tried, for organizational purposes, embedding the include .rb file that includes cgi for my app inside an include file which is inside another include file, which was one more such level lower than before. This caused the Query strings stuff to no longer be available to me in my $CGIo object I was making. I tried a number of variations, but the two common things that fixed it were either taking out the active record connection call, or moving the include file that instantiates $CGIo = cgi.new to at least one level less deep.

So, I guess I'm only including this for now for use by the devs and warning to the group. For all I know I'm the only one foolhardy enough to be doing this kind of thing at this time, but still, it may be interesting.

Best wishes.

Sincerely, Xeno
xc