Rails adds support for Fiber-safe ActiveRecord ConnectionPools

Re:Rails adds support for Fiber-safe ActiveRecord Connection... by Lio on Thursday February 24, 2022 @11:43AM (#30456868)

Things are changing on this front.

We now have better fibres for IO bound code and ractors for thread safe CPU bound code.

Personally I don’t think ractors are completely solid but I don’t think it will long until they are.

I think Ruby’s future is pretty rosey compared to a few years ago.

I would even say that small projects can avoid Sidekiq and Redis by using Good Job and Postgres making them even cheaper to start with.

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Re:Rails adds support for Fiber-safe ActiveRecord Connection... by pizza234 on Thursday February 24, 2022 @02:13PM (#30458898)

Regarding the ractors, I'm a big fan - I believe true multithreading in a language with a GIL is a revolutionary change. On the other hand, I also believe that Ruby has always had a culture of single threading, so for the ecosystem to adjust (in practice, for having threadsafe libraries), it will take a very long time (if ever; I'm pessimitic and personally believe the ecosystem will never catch up, but of course, I wish all the best :)).

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