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...f thread safety a conscious design decision (kind of understandable for rails as such, but IMHO strange for ActiveRecord) or just something nobody has found the time to take care of yet? Is there any documentation on what exactly lacks thread safety? From http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowTosWorkerThreads I got the impression that it''s mainly a lack of connection pooling in ActiveRecord, which (in theory) shouldn''t be too difficult to fix.. Some details on my project: It''s a tool taking care of (in the future) most of the administrative work at http://dotsrc.org/ --...

...framework. I have a newbie question about ruby threads. Are there any general things to avoid doing when using ruby threads and rails? Also specifically, will using BackgrounDrb avoid the socket problem described in this link (extracted from Rails wiki): http://clipclip.org/chao/clips/detail/6216/howtosworkerthreads-in-ruby-on-rails I''m hoping it will because, presumably, BackgrounDrb runs in a separate process from the actual rails web app? Thanks, chao lam -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/backgroundrb-devel/attachments/...

I don''t know whether this is a bug or feature, and I don''t know whether this belongs to Gmailer (http://rubyforge.org/projects/gmailutils) in specific or Rails/Ruby in general. I have an instance method in an ActiveRecord model, that upon a web request using WEBrick, spawns off a thread, in which it invokes Gmailer to perform some processing. What fails is that simply

Hi, My environment is composed of ~250 workstations hitting a single puppetmaster server, which has been working fairly well up until now. The most recent change has been a migration of a lot of remote file copy objects which were previously handled with cfengine. client side puppetd calls to the puppetmaster.getconfig method are taking unreasonably long, on the order of 2-3 minutes. It