Rails - Sep 2005 - RE: Re: scgi_rails opens new a database connection for everyrequest?

It seems to me, by looking at the ActiveRecord code
(abstract_adapter.rb) that connections are opened and maintained by
default on a per Thread basis. This is because Rails is designed to
function either with single thread processes (fcgi) or with a pool of
Thread which are being reused. The connections are opened once for each
thread. If threads are created on each request, connections will be
opened each time and will never be explicitely closed.