diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 6ec92bc..0d21542 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -142,32 +142,11 @@ To set up a pooled connection to a single MongoDB instance: Though the pooling architecture will undoubtedly evolve, it currently owes much credit to the connection pooling implementations in ActiveRecord and PyMongo. -## Using with Phusion Passenger and Unicorn +## Forking -When Passenger and Unicorn are in smart spawning mode you need to be sure that child -processes will create a new connection to the database. In Passenger, this can be handled like so: - - if defined?(PhusionPassenger) - PhusionPassenger.on_event(:starting_worker_process) do |forked| - if forked - # Reset all connection objects. How you do this depends on where - # you keep your connection object. In any case, call the #connect - # method on the connection object. For example: - # CONN.connect - # - # If you're using MongoMapper: - # MongoMapper.connection.connect - end - end - end - -In Unicorn, add this to your unicorn.rb file: - - after_fork do |server, worker| - # Handle reconnection - end - -The above code should be put into a Rails initializer or similar initialization script. +Certain Ruby application servers work by forking, and it has long been necessary to +re-establish the child process's connection to the database after fork. But with the release +of v1.3.0, the Ruby driver detects forking and reconnects automatically. ## String Encoding