[NEW EXAMPLE] Rails - Connection Pools

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General

• Project name: Ruby on Rails
• Example name: Connection Pools
• Project home page: https://github.com/rails/rails
• Programming language(s): Ruby

Description

Rails is a "web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern."

Rails uses the Active Record pattern. To manage database connections, they implement quite advanced connection pooling.

Links

• https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/83217025a171593547d1268651b446d3533e2019/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb
• https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/83217025a171593547d1268651b446d3533e2019/activerecord/test/cases/connection_pool_test.rb

What makes it interesting

• Very popular project.
• Common pattern.
• Quite advanced implementation.

Related work

We already have an article about connection pools in Puppet, also in Ruby. The Rails' implementation appears quite a lot more advanced.

Other

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