[NEW EXAMPLE] Puppet - HTTP Connection Pool

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General

• Project name: Puppet
• Example name: HTTP Connection Pool
• Project home page: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet
• Programming language(s): Ruby

Description

Puppet, an automated administrative engine for your Linux, Unix, and Windows systems, performs administrative tasks (such as adding users, installing packages, and updating server configurations) based on a centralized specification.

Puppet implements a pool for reusing HTTP connections.

Links

• https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/8ed2564a3b0978ce0880af904df56d79637c15e8/lib/puppet/http/pool.rb
• https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/8ed2564a3b0978ce0880af904df56d79637c15e8/spec/unit/http/pool_spec.rb

What makes it interesting

• Idiomatic Ruby.
• Very common problem, very reusable.
• Simple, easy to understand.

Related work

No

Other

A library implementing similar functionality: https://github.com/mperham/connection_pool/blob/master/lib/connection_pool.rb

Similar functionality in Rails: https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/83217025a171593547d1268651b446d3533e2019/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb