= generic_connection_pool
== DESCRIPTION
Always network clients require a connection pool, like database connection, cache connection and others.
Generic connection pool can be used with anything. It is extracted from ActiveRecord ConnectionPool,
a little changed.Sharing a limited number of network connections among many threads.
Connections are created delayed.
== USEAGE
Connections can be obtained and used from a connection pool in several
ways:
1. Use connection_pool.connection to obtain a connection instance.
and when you're done with the connection(s) and wish it to be returned
to the pool, you can call connection_pool.release_connection to release
connection back to the connection pool.
2. Manually check out a connection from the pool with connection_pool.checkout.
You are responsible for returning this connection to the pool when
finished by calling connection_pool.checkin(connection).
3. Use connection_pool.with_connection(&block), which obtains a connection,
yields it as the sole argument to the block, and returns it to the pool
after the block completes.
Connections in the pool may be Adapter instance that should implete methods like
verify!, disconnect!, active? etc.
== Example
require 'generic_connection_pool'
connection_pool = ConnectionPool.new(:size => 5, :timeout => 5) do
new_connection_adapter
end
connection_pool.connection
connection_pool.release_connection
connection = connection_pool.checkout
connection_pool.checkin(connection)
connection.with_connection{|connection| do_somting_with_connection}
Do something in the block, that always create an adapter instance or connect to a server.
== INSTALL
gem install generic_connection_pool
== AUTHOR
Kame Chen