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“Josh has been working on a Google Summer of Code project to bring thread safety to Rails and is just about ready to wrap it up. Rails 2.2 will be thread safe thanks to the work that Josh has put into it.”

Didn’t expect to see that great news inside here: http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/2008/8/16/josh-peek-officially-joins-the-rails-core That should deserve its own post.

I look forward to a Rails that is thread safe. I often have to work around any parallel tasks I run inside a Rails container by wrapping all Active Record calls inside a Mutex. It will be nice when that is not needed. Congrats Josh!