Rails threadsafe and rake task

leena

November 3, 2010

We’ve got an application which uses JRuby + RoR deployed in Glassfish. We enabled config.threadsafe! in the production.rb file to support multithreaded environment.

The server was working fine, but the rake tasks started failing because of a class loading issue. The immediate fix we had was to disable threadsafe for rake tasks and enable it when the server is started. This is not a scalable solution and when we started looking further into it, we found that the following change in the rails initializer should resolve the issue:

You can see the issue and solution being discussed in the following thread: http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core/browse_thread/thread/b13dbe0b8f12b7dc