Ruby, MySQL: Connection pool that is outside of the rails framework? - mysql

Question

Is there a ruby gem or such for MySQL connection pooling that isn't part of rails? I simply have a ruby script (again, I don't do anything with rails).

Answer 1

Seamless Database Pool is supposed to work "with any ActiveRecord application", and ActiveRecord is easy to use without Rails. I've used ActiveRecord in a plain Ruby app, and it was just a matter of configuring the logger and the database connection, something like
ActiveRecord::Base.logger = App.logger
dbconfig = YAML::load(File.open("#{APP_ROOT}/config/database.yml"))
ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(dbconfig[ENV["APP_ENV"]])
I haven't used Seamless Database Pool outside of Rails, but I couldn't find any connection poolers aimed at plain Ruby apps after a quick search so it might be your best bet.

Answer 2

If you use JRuby (with ActiveRecord and JDBC adapter) you can configure a J2EE container to handle DB connection pool and pass the pool in database.yml via jndi similar to here (example with oracle).
Also, some slides for MYSQL pools via ActiveRecord
ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(
:adapter => 'mysql',
:username => 'root',
:password => '123456',
:database => 'database',
:pool => 5 # <- CONN POOL
)

Answer 3

You could wrap the connection_pool gem around a couple single connections.
Examples from the doc (redis):
Example usage with block (faster):
#pool = ConnectionPool.new { Redis.new }
#pool.with do |redis|
redis.lpop('my-list') if redis.llen('my-list') > 0
end
Example usage replacing an existing connection (slower):
$redis = ConnectionPool.wrap { Redis.new }
def do_work
$redis.lpop('my-list') if $redis.llen('my-list') > 0
end