mperham/connection_pool

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A generic connection pooling library for Ruby that manages a shared pool of objects (network clients, connections) across threads and fibers. It provides blocking checkout with timeouts, a wrapper for easy migration, and shutdown/reload lifecycle support.

Use cases

• pool redis connections across threads in ruby
• share a memcached client among fibers
• limit concurrent connections to a network service
• migrate a global connection to a pool gradually
• fail fast when pooled resources are exhausted
• pool any ruby client object, not just databases

When to choose

• you need to share limited connections (redis, memcached, http clients) across threads or fibers
• your client library lacks its own pooling
• you want timeout-based backpressure when the pool is exhausted

When to avoid

• your ORM or client (ActiveRecord, MongoDB driver) already provides its own pool
• you need pooling in a language other than ruby

Facets

library · maturity stable

concurrency database-driver developer-tools developer-tools backend databases performance ruby connection-pooling threading fibers redis memcached

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