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Ruby thread pool gem.
Thread pools allow you to control the number of active threads at any given time.
Create a queue data structure to represent the set of work that needs to be done.
Be an unopinionated toolbox that provides useful utilities without debating which is better or why.
In the following example we are using the celluloid gem to do this for you.
One of the fundamental concepts in key ruby libraries that embrace concurrency is the thread pool.
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A thread pool is an abstraction for re using a limited number of threads to perform concurrent work.
For this post i ll use sidekiq and redis an open source key value cache and store.
You could build your own pool but i wouldn t recommend it.
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All the implementations i looked at were either buggy or wasted cpu resources for no apparent reason for example used a sleep of 0 01 seconds to then check for readiness and stuff like this.
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A number of ruby gems exist to support background processing i e saving jobs in a queue and processing them later without blocking the current thread.
Modern concurrency tools for ruby.
If we happen to be on mri we could probably.
This allows us to specify a static number of.
Inspired by erlang clojure scala haskell f c java and classic concurrency patterns.
We could use a mutex but in most cases a queue will work and is simpler to reason about.
Celluloid is now unmaintaned but the general idea of worker pools still applies.
The connection pool gem will allow us to create a pool of connections which we can use to grab a connection and return it after we re done using it.
Gem install thread usage pool.
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You can find examples of thread pool implementations in gems like puma concurrent ruby celluloid pmap parallel and ruby thread.
A queue is a basic stack like data structure on which we can call push and pop queue is thread safe so if multiple threads access it at the same time it will maintain consistency.