From: George Palmer <george.palmer@...>
Date: 2006-10-29T22:35:17+09:00
Subject: Two rails questions

Hi guys,

I've been trying to work out answers to the following problems for hours 
but have reached the limit of my ruby knowledge!  Any help will be 
massively appreciated:

1) When deploying a rails app to a web server (lightHTTP) and a FastCGI 
server with say 20 processes, do each of the processes run their own 
ruby instance?  The reason I ask is using Globalize ruby (great package 
btw) accesses Local.set() which is a class method.  Therefore if 
requests intertwine (can't happen with threads as they don't occur in 
ruby but could if processes running on same ruby instance?) users 
Locales will get messed up.

2) Depending on the user logged in will depend on the database where 
their data is stored (different physical machine).  How can I get a 
rails model to realize this?  Using an ApplicationController I can 
connect to the correct database (we know the number in the session), but 
this causes a new connection on every request - not exactly efficient. 
Ideally I'd like connections to all the user clusters established and 
the model just uses the one it requires.

Thanks in advance for any help,

George