Eric Hodel wrote: > On Feb 27, 2007, at 13:36, Roger Pack wrote: > >> So...apparently webrick does the following for serving pages: >> loads the page into a string object >> then sends that string to the requestor. >> Unfortunately this means that if it is a very large file being served >> that that buffer string will get very large. > > Don't dynamically build and send large strings. Use an IO instead. > WEBrick knows the difference and responds accordingly. I believe that rails must use strings, then--any ideas for that case? Thanks! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.