avoid garbage collection of parent connection handlers which can mess…

… with the database connection in the parent process
tra · Nov 24, 2009 · 2295e93 · 2295e93
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diff --git a/lib/patches.rb b/lib/patches.rb
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ class ActiveRecord::Base
   # reconnect without disconnecting
   if Spawn::RAILS_2_2
     def self.spawn_reconnect(klass=self)
+      # keep ancestors' connection_handlers around to avoid them being garbage collected
+      (@@ancestor_connection_handlers ||= []) << @@connection_handler
       @@connection_handler = ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::ConnectionHandler.new
       establish_connection
     end