# FreshConnection FreshConnection supports to connect with Mysql slave servers via Load Balancers. All connections will be disconnected every time at the end of the Rails controller's action. FreshConnection does not support Rails 2.x. ## Installation Add this line to your application's Gemfile: gem "fresh_connection" And then execute: $ bundle Or install it yourself as: $ gem install fresh_connection ## Config ### config/database.yml production: adapter: mysql2 encoding: utf8 reconnect: true database: kaeru pool: 5 username: master password: master host: localhost socket: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock slave: username: slave password: slave host: slave ```slave``` is a config to connect to slave servers. Others will use the master server setting. ### use multiple slave servers group If you may want to use multiple slave groups, write the config to ```config/database.yml```. production: adapter: mysql2 encoding: utf8 reconnect: true database: kaeru pool: 5 username: master password: master host: localhost socket: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock slave: username: slave password: slave host: slave admin_slave: username: slave password: slave host: admin_slaves And call the establish_fresh_connection method in a model that access to ```admin_slave``` slave group. class AdminUser < ActiveRecord::Base establish_fresh_connection :admin_slave end The model of children class will access to same slave group as the parent. class Parent < ActiveRecord::Base establish_fresh_connection :admin_slave end class AdminUser < Parent end class Benefit < Parent end AdminUser and Benefit access to ```admin_slave``` slave group. ### Declare model that doesn't use slave db class SomethingModel < ActiveRecord::Base master_db_only! end If a model that always access to the master server is exist, You write ```master_db_only!``` in the model. The model that master_db_only model's child is always access to master db. ### Slave Connection Manager Default slave connection manager is FreshConnection::ConnectionManager. If you would like to change slave connection manager, assign yourself slave connection manager. #### config/application.rb config.fresh_connection.connection_manager = MySlaveConnection or #### config/initializers/fresh_connection.rb FreshConnection.connection_manager = MySlaveConnection Yourself Slave Connection Manager should be inherited FreshConnection::AbstractConnectionManager class MySlaveConnection < FreshConnection::AbstractConnectionManager def slave_connection # must return object of ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::Mysql2Adapter end def put_aside! # called when end of Rails controller action end def recovery(failure_connection, exception) # called when raise exception to access slave server end end ## Usage Read query will be access to slave server. Article.where(:id => 1) If you want to access to master saver, use readonly(false). Article.where(:id => 1).readonly(false) In transaction, Always will be access to master server. Article.transaction do Article.where(:id => 1) end ## Contributing 1. Fork it 2. Create your feature branch (`git checkout -b my-new-feature`) 3. Commit your changes (`git commit -am 'Add some feature'`) 4. Push to the branch (`git push origin my-new-feature`) 5. Create new Pull Request ## Test I'm glad that you would do test! To run the test suite, you need mysql installed. How to setup your test environment. First of all, you setting the config of the test mysql server in ```spec/database.yml``` ```bash bundle install --path bundle GEM_HOME=bundle/ruby/(your ruby version) gem install bundler --pre bundle exec appraisal install ``` This command run the spec suite for all rails versions supported. ```base bundle exec appraisal rake spec ```