# RE: Newbie Question about Custom Classes

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-newbie-question-about-custom-classes/84293>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 20, 2006, 8:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-newbie-question-about-custom-classes/84293 "2006-03-20T20:17:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![HoganS\_Brian\_P](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/9de0a6/32.png) [@HoganS\_Brian\_P](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/HoganS_Brian_P)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 8:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-newbie-question-about-custom-classes/84293/1 "2006-03-20T20:17:51Z")

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Brent: You say you’re using Apache? Why not use WEBrick? The reason I  
ask is that if you are using Apache + FCGI and you are in “Production”  
mode, all models will be cached. And there are memory leaks with FCGI  
and “Development” mode.

If you’re just starting out, I’d recommend just using WEBrick. (Better  
debug messages in my opinion).

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**Author:** ![HoganS\_Brian\_P](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/9de0a6/32.png) [@HoganS\_Brian\_P](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/HoganS_Brian_P)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 8:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-newbie-question-about-custom-classes/84293/2 "2006-03-20T20:22:51Z")

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Well, personally, I like developing, testing and pushing the same  
files in the same environment. So if the production server is apache,  
then I develop with the same. But, if there are known issues I could  
always switch to WEBrick for development, and leave Apache for  
production.

I turned the caching options off in config/environments/\*.rb for all  
environments, restarted Apache, and it still caches.

Thanks,

- Brent