NAME

forkhandle

SYNOPSIS

connection = ForkHandle.get(:db_connection){ Db.connect(config) }

DESCRIPTION

managing connection across forks and threads is tricky. most libraries use and icky idiom that requires each and every client to configure it's own forking logic, something like

MyLameLib.after_fork do

  # close handles you should close

end

many libs also do not provide you with per-thread connection, making MT a manual process.

a teeny bit of code can solve both. the concept is simple:

maintain a table of connections scoped by process id and thread id. any miss will trigger auto-scrubbing the table, but only connections from another process (we've been forked) will be closed. this gives

• per thread connections

• per process connections

• auto-matic cleanup after a fork