From: Daniel DeLorme Date: 2009-05-21T08:43:55+09:00 Subject: Re: mysql vs. fork Ken Bloom wrote: > One solution is to encapsulate the database connection in a DRb server. I > have written about this in ruby-talk:296032 (see http:// > blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/296032) Hmm, in that message when you wrote that "DRb connections will work just fine across forks" did you mean that the parent's connection won't be closed when the child process exits? Because otherwise, I don't see how both parent and child could share a forked socket. -Daniel